31 S ROJLAJT POTTERY. 



I have adduced may not, perhaps, be sufficiently conclusfro. 

 But if they did so, the Gfrange is a site which they may b© 

 supposed to have chosen, since it contains every requisite for 

 the purpose, viz. — the best quality of clay near the surface, 

 an excellent sharp sand, water, and an inexhaustible supply 

 of fuel. The supposition that Britain supplied an export 

 trade in Pottery during the Eoman occupation, is borne out 

 by the circumstance of many urns and vessels, precisely 

 similar to the Upchurch ware, having been found among the 

 Koman Pottery dug up in the neighbourhood of Boulogne. 

 In the same place I am informed by Mr. Albert "Way, have 

 been found ornaments of * * Kimmeridge Coal. " I may therefore 

 suggest the probability, that comparison with remains dis- 

 covered abroad would prove that much had been obtained 

 from Purbeck, and that farther investigation may afford 

 evidence of Eoman location and manufacture of no meaa 

 consideration. 



LIST OF THE MOEE EEMAEKABLE SPECIMENS. 



1. A basin or bowl, (PI. xix, Fig. 1,) measuring in diameter 

 at the top, 8^-in. by 3-in. deep. It is of grey ware, 

 glazed red in imitation of Samian, and is inscribed 

 upon the side and bottom with crossed lines. 



3. Patella or plate, (PI. xix. Fig. 2,) dark brown. Diameter 

 at the bottom 7 -in. by l^^-in. deep, ornamented with 

 foliating lines. 



3. A handle (PI. xix, Fig. 3) of a black vessel, apparently a 



lagena. 



4. Fragment of the neck of a Lagena, (PI. xix. Fig. 4,) of a 



yellowish grey, unglazed ware. Piameter at the mouthi 

 6 inches. 



