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knees of the skeleton. The tablet or panel w 20 inches by 

 16 inches, ornamented with small circular figures at the 

 angles connected by two sets of triple rectangular lines, and 

 a third set which after proceeding some way terminates in a 

 circular end; the centre is occupied by a rectangular figure 

 containing a circle connected with the angles by four sets of 

 lines with a herring-bone ornament. It is not easy, we pre- 

 sume, to conjecture with any accuracy the use for which this 

 curious object was designed. 



*' In 1841, Charles Wame, Esq., F.S.A., discovered the site 

 of a Roman Pottery on Bagber Farm, in the Parish of Milton 

 Abbas. No perfect vessel, but numerous fragments of coarse 

 grained ware were found, with small angular pieces of oolitic 

 shale, having sharp edges and which had been probably used 

 as tools in ornamenting the vessels under the process of 

 manufactiu'e; a bone knife handle, and coins of Pliilippus 

 Junr, Alexander Severus, Gordianus, and Antoninus Pius; 

 but the most interesting relic was a semicircular piece of 

 Kimmeridge shale, having a radius of 7 inches and thickness 

 of If -inch, which was most probably part of the Potter's 

 wheel, as it presented marks of contrivance for giving it a 

 rotatory motion. In the adjoining parish, Dewlish, a tesse- 

 lated pavement was discovered many years ago, and other 

 Roman relics more recently. With reference to vases and 

 vessels of this material, the examples known are of very great 

 rarity, and give to that part of your paper the highest 

 possible interest. 



"The "small vessel of oak" which was found in the Sto- 

 borough Tumulus, and was subsequently in the possession of 

 Mr. Gough, ' may have been formed of the shale, for you may 

 remember that the vases described by Mr. Henslow were at 

 first supposed to be formed of oak; very small earthen vases 

 have been sometimes found in tumuli, as in those opened at 

 Lulworth by Mr. Milner. 



" The box in the Museum of Antiquities at Boulogne, which 



