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3&omau ftrmams at Utttlc Chester. 



By W. Thompson Watkin. 





N digging the foundation for some cottages,* in the 

 summer of 1886, at Little Chester (Derventio), Mr. 

 A. Seale Haslam found several specimens of Roman 

 pottery, at depths varying from three to four feet from the present 

 surface. These are represented on Plate VI. 



No. I. is a vessel 4^ inches in height, and 4! inches in width 

 at the widest part. It is of pale light red ware, and from this 

 fact, combined with the shape, it is probably of local manufacture. 



No. II. is 6\ inches in height, and sf inches at the widest part. 

 It is of a dull brown colour. It is rudely ornamented with 

 diagonal lines, scratched upon it with some sharp instrument, 

 forming a sort of lozenge pattern. As in other examples, these 

 lines commence a little below the neck of the vessel. This vessel, 

 though not of the orthodox " Upchurch " colour (a bluish black), 

 seems decidedly of Upchurch ware. It strongly resembles the 

 largest in Mr. Knight's group of Upchurch vessels in Celt, Roman, 

 and Saxon (first edition plate opposite p. 210), and its colour is 

 similar to three other vessels from the same site, engraved in 

 colour in Intellectual Observer, October, 1865, pp. 161 and 163. 

 When found, this vessel was about half full of calcined wheat. 



No. III., which is about 4 inches high, is a bowl 6| inches in 

 diameter in its widest part, and of a grayish colour. It is also 



"The site of these finds can be identified, as Mr. Haslam has given to the 

 cottages the name of " Roman Camp." 



