106 Examination of the Roman Station at Baydon. 
which Lord Craven says “was a sort of cave of this shape, 
about three feet high in the arch, near which were 
ETT found twenty-six Roman coins in the space of 
about six feet, also an arrow-head, apparently 
English, and a weapon, very like an old bill-hook, 
only of a large’ size.” In the excavations that have at different 
times been made in these holes, numerous articles of domestic use 
have been found. Amongst others we may mention the following : 
—Two ampullz of good form, though of rather coarse ware. One 
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Original height, 73 inches. Original height, 6 inches. 



Ampulle found at Botley Copse, near Baydon. 
Reduced one fifth linear. 
of these, found by myself, I had the pleasure of depositing in the 
Museum of the Society. One or two urn-shaped vessels, now in 
Lord Craven’s possession in London; some fragments of the well- 
known form of Roman drinking cup, the sides of which are orna- 
mented with vertical depressions. There were also remains of a 
great variety of earthen vessels, chiefly of common grey pottery, 
and some mortaria of a hard light coloured ware. These mortaria 
were formed with a thick rim, and the inner surface studded with 
minute quartz pebbles which presented a hard rough surface for 
grinding. A few fragments of “imitation”? Samian ware lay here 
and there, but none of the real pottery. In the space marked 
(S) on the plan, a skeleton was found. It was probably that 
