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other is a neck of similar shape to that represented in 

 Plate III., 3. 



Grey Ware. This ware is distinguished from the Black 

 Ware by the colour and texture of the clay. The vases 

 are closely related to those of black clay in shape and 

 general character but the clay is always dull grey in 

 colour and of a curiously soapy texture apparently very 

 lightly fired. Even in the few cases where the clay is 

 fired so hard as to be gritty and brittle it never becomes 

 black. The vases vary from very delicately moulded and 

 thin-sided forms to the roughest types of cooking utensils 

 but the commonest shape is the same sort of wide-mouthed 

 jar that prevails in the black ware, though it is usually 

 more delicately moulded. The foot of this jar shows all 

 stages intermediate between the merely flattened bottom 

 and the fully formed base-ring. The rim is occasionally 

 moulded to receive a lid, and a few saucer-shaped lids have 

 been found. There is seldom any attempt to ornament the 

 vases, but in a few cases little projecting knobs of clay are 

 stuck on the vase or the surface is worked with the thumb 

 into iiregular ridges and hollows (Plate IV., 3 & 5). 



A very fine and delicately executed example of Grey 

 Ware is a bowl with a wide overhanging rim. Its shape 

 would enable it to float in water and it may therefore have 

 been used as a wine-cooler (Plate IV., 10). 



Pale Ware. The clay is light and hard, varying in 

 colour from white to cream or pink, and it is clearly dis- 

 tinguishable from the brick-red clay of the Red Ware. 

 It is less easy to distinguish the vases by shape, nearly all 

 the principal shapes of vases being common to both the 

 Red and the Pale wares. Certain shapes, however, may be 

 taken as being more distinctive of one ware than of the 

 other. That which is more characteristic of the Pale Ware 

 (though one or two examples in red clay have been found) 



