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deeper, and the foot also loses tlie subsidiary moulding. 

 The method too of arranging the ornament in two 

 principal friezes is natural to shape 29 where the moulding 

 of the vase breaks up the surface into two principal fields, 

 but is a less appropriate arrangement for the simple curve 

 of shape 37. The design of both friezes seems to be dis- 

 tinctively " Graufesenque " [cf. Dechelette, I.e. vol. i., 

 pi. vi. 5, and viii. 1). Fragment no. 14 again is closely 

 allied to no. 8, coming apparently from a bowl of the same 

 shape and the same arrangement of friezes. The design 

 too is classed by Dechelette as " Graufesenque " (vol. i., 

 pi. vii. 24). It is necessary therefore to class these two 

 examples of shape 37 (nos. 8 and 14) as roughly con- 

 temporary with the examples of 29 (nos. 1 — 5) and to 

 assign them to the close of the Graufesenque potteries, 

 about 80 A.D.7 



To much the same date probably belongs no. 7. Bowls 

 of shape 30 are common to both Graufesenque and Lezoux, 

 though they occur more frequently at the former, and 

 both the form and the cruciform ornament of the Melandra 

 bowl are of a transitional type. In nos. 9 — 12 the designs 

 are those of the Lezoux vases but in no case need belong 

 to a very late period of the fabric. 



The evidence of the pottery would therefore suggest 

 that the most important occupation of the camp was about 

 80 A.D., and that it continued in use for a considerable 

 time after that date. 



List of the more important fragments of Terra Sigillata from 

 Melandra : — 

 1. Fragment of bowl of shape 29. " Engine-turned " pattern 

 below rim: frieze of animals and plants: tongue pattern. 

 Plate I., 2. 



7. There is a striking correspondence between these "late Graufesenque" 

 bowls from Melandra and those found at Pompeii. The Pompeii vases 

 are presumably those in use in 79 A.D. 



