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glaze believed to be characteristic of the work of mediseval manu- 

 facture. As the general description of the pottery contained in 

 the former Paper applies to the whole, it need not be repeated, 

 but something may be added by way of setting out more fully the 

 different styles of the ornamentation. 



The pottery is so fragmentary that in most instances the 

 designs are incomplete. It exhibits ornamentation either incised 

 or in relief, or both, but colour decoration is absent. Of incised 

 designs the most simple consists of thumb marks, usually found 

 round the bottom of the larger vessels. 



A number of pieces of ware, I inch thick, red inside, and 

 finished outside with a yellowish brown glaze, representing one or 

 more vessels of a form contracting in the middle and expanding 

 above and below, are enriched nearly all over with a kind of 

 herring bone or fern-like ornament, scratched into the soft clay. 



A fragment of fine hard ware, ^ inch thick, bluish in the 

 fracture, grey inside and glazed outside a greenish brown colour, 

 part of a large vessel, is marked with incised ornament, consisting 

 of a pair of vertical lines and short sloping strokes on either side, 

 forming together a broad fern-like design. 



A piece of ware, enriched with an incised undulating line. 



Several pieces of fine ware, black inside, and glazed outside 

 bluish green, are enriched with vertical ribs in relief, laid on in 

 slip, and between them with incised lines half an inch apart, in 

 horizontal or more or less sloping directions. 



Fragments of hard ware, black inside and green glazed out- 

 side, enriched in relief with vertical rope-like ornament, termi- 

 nating with tasselled ends. 



Several pieces of ware, red inside, glazed green outside, 

 decorated with a net-like pattern in relief, having knots at the 

 intersections of the lines, all laid on in slip. The design is 

 imperfect, but it has evidently been elaborate. The vessel was 

 probably square or octagonal shaped, as the pieces show scarcely 

 any curvature. 



A piece of thin ware, bluish grey inside, and of a brownish 

 ■colour outside, and glazed, shows a vertical ornament in relief 

 crossing with a knot, a horizontal line in relief, and terminating 

 in a ball pendant. There is only a fragment of this design. 



The handles of vessels, of which there are upwards of forty, 

 are moulded or otherwise ornamented. One is marked longitudi- 



