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as York, but beyond York {i.e., in tbe parts of Britain 

 occupied later tlian 80 A.D.) only bowls of shape 37. As 

 ibis agrees with the evidence from Gaul and Germany one 

 is justified in assuming that the occurrence of shape 29 on 

 any site is good evidence for its occupation as early as 

 80 A.D. In the following list of Terra Sigillata fragments 

 from Melandra nos. 1 — 4 are of shape 29 ; no. 7 is of shape 

 30; nos. 8 — 14 seem all to belong to bowls of shape 37, 

 though the fragments are not in all cases large enough to 

 give the shape with certainty. The evidence of these 



No, 29. 



No. 30. 



No. 37. 

 Fig. I. — Shapes of Terra Sigillata Bowls. 



shapes for determining the date of the camp is important. 

 Nos. 1 — 4 of the list are of shape 29 but belong to its later 

 period when it is already tending to the less elaborate 

 form of shape 37. The exterior mouldings of the vase are 

 less pronounced than in the earlier examples, and the 

 frieze of animals and plants has succeeded to the purely 

 formal designs of the earlier period. On the other hand 

 no. 8 in the list is certainly a very early form of shape 37. 

 In the more fully developed examples of the shape the 

 plain band below the rim is quite flat and usually much 



