Careful search revealed no trace of a drawbridge, but an examination of the ground at the south end of the Via Quintana brought to light the heavy bottoming of a road crossing the early ditch and passing beneath the rampart, to disappear again where it was cut by the later ditches. Here, then, was the position of the earlier gateway we had been in search bf. It was, indeed, natural that it should be so, as the main road from the south in the earliest occupation had entered almost at this point. The disappearance of the road on the line of the later ditches proved that, with the formation of the gate at the end of the Via Principalis, this gate had

been closed and the ditches carried through the roadway. The position of the earlier gate was further confirmed by an examination of the double ditches surrounding the annexe to the south. Here the road from the Via Quintana passed out on solid ground, the ditches stopping on either side of it, while the road from the Via Principalis was carried over ditches which had been filled up for the purpose with river stones. It was thus apparent

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