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ON ROMAN POTTERY 



DISCOYEBSD IN PUI^BKOK. 



[ Read at tke Grange, February lOth, 1858. ] 



At the conclusion of a paper upon the subject of the 

 Kimmeridge "Coal Money," which I read before the Society 

 in November of 1856, I spoke of the pottery which is usually 

 found in the same localities as a sister manufacture. I stated 

 also that the specimens which had fallen imder my notice bore 

 a close similarity to those from other acknowledged Roman 

 stations, and it was upon these data that I partly rested my 

 argument in favour of the **Coal Money" being of Roman 

 origin. But I have since received from the Rev. N. Bond, 

 many fragments of a considerable variety of fictile vessels, 

 which have been discovered during the last year within the 

 premises of the Grange. 



Comparison with specimens and drawings of others, ob- 

 tained from various undoubted Roman sites, establishes 

 their identity. 



The many fragments of pottery which have been found at 

 the Grange are chiefly of two colours, red, and grey. Much 

 of the latter boars a black glaze; the former a red, in imita- 

 tion of Somian wore, and upon one ^agment it is white. Oa 



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