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 EARLY MAN delicate cunres resembling the conventional forms often given to the vine, in others with a species of punctured festoon, and in another case v^^e find an ornament made up of irregular lozenges. The shapes of two of the pots which were capable of restoration are curious. They may be said to resemble a handle-less saucepan with a somewhat grciUcr development of the rim. Another example of this kind of pot decorated with an ornament which approaches the returned spiral ornament even more closely than does the ornament from Mount Caburn, was found quite recently at Elm Grove, Brighton. This has a slightly fuller rim than the Mount Caburn pots, but otherwise it is strikingly like them in form. It is clearly a special form of pot, and perhaps it may be a purely Sussex type. In the Caldecott Museum at Eastbourne there are three speci- mens of Late Celtic pottery, one of which found at Seaford has a Pottery found at Mount Caburn. pedestal and is decorated with cordons in a way that reminds one of the Aylesford and Essex Late Celtic forms. In the Long Man of Wilmington,' a gigantic human figure cut out on the hillside, Sussex possesses an ancient monument comparable with the Giant at Cerne Abbas, Dorset, and the various White Horses to be found in different parts of the country.^ The figure is that of a man 240 feet in height, and may be well seen from the railway near Polegate. Originally it was cut out rather slightly in the ground, but the outlines have been in recent years clearly defined in white brick, and the Long Man may now be seen from considerable distances. He holds two staves, each 230 feet long. An attempt has been made by some writers to show that these hillside figures were associated with 1 Stusrx Arch. Coll. iv. 63-4, and xxvi. 97-II2 2 Mr. Charles Dawson, F.S.A., informs the writer that on a steep part of the Downs near the Cuckmere Valley below Hinover, there is a very rough cutting or outline resembling a horse, wliith was periodically 'scoured' by the country folk until a few generations ago. 323