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WITH REMARKS UPON THE OBJECTS FOUND. 



it we collected an abundance of fragments of the rough pottery, 

 and a few pieces of hard ware. 



On reviewing the results of the work at Bower Hall Farm 

 we were again impressed by the very large proportion of the 

 rough coarse ware, sometimes occurring in quite large pieces, 

 which, owing to their soft nature and saturation with moisture, 

 were very fragile. The " T-pieces " and wedges were compara- 

 tively rare, as was also the Romano-British pot-shards — in fact, 

 we kept all that were found. No Samian ware was observed, 

 nor have we found worked flints in any of our cuttings. 



During the same year we dug into a Red-hill situate on the 



" Grassy-Marsh " (inside the sea 

 wall) on Ivy House Farm, East 

 Mersea, by kind permission of Mr. 

 Cant, the tenant. This is on the 

 piece of marsh near East Mersea 

 Stone (6in. Ordnance Sheet 47, 

 N.E.), less than a quarter of a mile 

 from the water. The ; ' hill " was 

 roughly oval, about 450 feet in 

 circumference. The working party 

 was the same, with the kind assist- 

 ance of Mr. R. Wood, the foreman 

 of the farm. The results of the 

 work were almost identical with our 

 experiences at Bower Hall Farm. 

 The same kind of burnt earth, the 

 piece of pottery, from a red- rough pottery, T-and wedge-shaped 



HILL AT IVY HOUSE FARM, EAST • , , . , ,. 



mersea (restored). pieces, but the pottery was more 



fragmentary and decayed. Here, 

 as in other hills, were found roughly shaped masses of 

 burnt clay, which could hardly be called pottery ; one 

 piece kept from the '• Grassy Marsh " hill is quite i\ inches 

 thick. One notable find was a piece of clay similar to the 

 shaft of a '• T-piece,"' but which had apparently been made with 

 a double prong at the end (see the restoration at Fig. 4). This 

 object is commented upon below. It may be noted that two of 

 the pieces of thick rough potcery from this spot have a yellow 

 glaze ; we have found no other examples of this. (See post.) 



FIG 4. — DOUBLE PRONG-SHAPED 



