RELICS OF THE ROMAN OCCUPATION, LITTLE CHESTER, DERBY. 89 



the second sketch, the ornamentation was produced by drops 

 of shp, and are dark upon a light ground. Similar pottery, made 



at Tickenhall, Derbyshire, is described in Ceramic Art. 



The worked stones. In Mr. Mottram's garden is to be seen 

 much gritstone (its source to be entered into shortly), now thrown 

 up into rockeries, and amongst it an occasional worked stone. 

 The more pronounced of these are quern fragments. The 

 upper stone given with section upon plate vi., fig. 4, is of hard 

 gritstone, 15 inches in diameter, and from 2 to 3 inches in thick- 

 ness. Its grinding surface is polished in places, and a concave as 

 usual in querns of this period. It is clear that this stone was fitted 

 into some mechanical arrangement for turning it, for on each side 

 of the " eye," which is nearly 3 inches in diameter, is to be noticed 

 the cuttings for a mill-rhine, and the excavation on the margin (seen 

 on the plate) still further bears this out. There are other fragments 

 of querns of very similar character, some beautifully finished, all 

 having a general resemblance in shape to the perfect querns found 

 upon the site of Uriconium, and now preserved at Shrewsbury. 

 An upper-stone has the peculiar wedge-shaped slots radiating from 

 the "eye," as noticed in the fragment from the Haddon Fields 

 barrow, described a year ago in this Journal, the only difference 

 being that this Little Chester stone is concave and thin. Fig. 

 6 is most puzzling. It is extremely nicely finished — no marks of 

 a chisel are to be seen. It is difficult to understand how it 

 could have been used as a mill-stone, for its diameter was only 

 ^\ or 9 in. Yet its lower surface is polished, and has the 



