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14. Fragment containing (a) band of panels with festoons 

 ■within -which are a bird and a volute, (6) a wreath pattern 

 below. Plate I., 3. 



15. Part of base, with raised boss in centre. Dull brown 

 clay with black engobe on interior and reddish-brown on 

 exterior. Remains of potter's stamp on interior, perhaps to 

 be read . . . ATULXUS (only the last three letters are certain). 



16. Fragments of a base with roughly incised inscription 

 under the foot M TYRI. 



17. A large number of bases, mostly from bowls or from 

 flatter vessels with low, almost vertical sides. Many of the 

 latter bases have a raised boss in the centre on which the 

 potter's name was stamped, though the stamps are now 

 destroyed. Often with band of " engine-turned " pattern on 

 interior. Two fragments of stamps have (a) NI (6) ♦*♦ 0. 



18. A large number of fragments of rims from bowls of 

 shape 37. Also rims of flatter vessels, as above. In a few cases 

 the engobe is black instead of red. 



19. Various other fragments from bowls of shape 37 with 

 remains of ornamentation. 



20. Saucer with ivy-leaves embossed on rim by the " en 

 barbotine " method. 



21. Fragments of vases with sides expanding in a double 

 curve. Plate III., 1. 



Miscellaneous Fragments. 



The following fragments, though not of Terra Sigillata, may 

 be most conveniently mentioned here: — 



1. Fragment of base. Pale pink clay, very friable: covered 

 with dark red engobe which easily peels from the soft body. 

 Apparently an imitation of Terra Sigillata. 



2. Several small fragments of leather-coloured clay with 

 surface either polished or covered with dark brown engobe : 

 from very thin-sided carefully moulded vases. Two fragments 

 are from open vessels with the outside delicately fluted in 

 horizontal bands. Probably from South Gaul. 



B. Roman-British Wares. 

 Castor Ware. 



The finest of the Roman-British wares is that which 

 was made in the kilns at Castor, the site of the Roman 



