ON SOME DIGGINGS NEAR RRASSINGTON, DERBYSHIRE. II3 



Fig. 4 (i). 

 Most of these vessels were decidedly large, some, as Fig. 5, 





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Fig. 5. 



attaining a diameter across the mouth of 23 in. So far as could 



be ascertained, the prevailing type was broad at the shoulder, 



and tapering downwards to the flat bottom, the line of taper 



being straight or convex, and sometimes a shallow reversed ogee. 



Some were apparently tall, others shallow or bowl-like. Figs. 6, 



7, and 8 are typical specimens of this class. 



The second and third classes have each a few fragments 



only. The paste of the former is lighter in colour, and 



more even in texture and better worked than the normal ware ; 

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