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and for containing food. Of the larger sizes, as might be expected, 
no perfect examples have been found. ‘There are also shallow bowls 
for heating liquids, smaller pots perhaps for unguents, and saucers 
identical in shape with those now used for placing under flower-pots. 
These last, however, were employed as covers. There is one in the 
Winchester Museum, which was found in Waterlane in that city, 
covering an urn containing ashes, and by overlapping the top of 
it, effectually preserving its contents from injury. Both are figured 
in vol. vi. of the “ Archzological Journal,” p. 184. Here is a muti- 
lated but interesting example, the only one I have met with, of a 
saucer-shaped cullender or strainer, the bottom and rim perforated 
with holes and scored with lines, to facilitate the escape of the 
liquid. Only one bottle-shaped vessel was found uninjured ; it is 
very strong and heavy, though not of large size, and bears marks 
of having been placed upon the fire. The large quantity of necks, 
handles, and rims of store jars, jugs, and bottles, attest the use 
which the Romans made of all these articles. None of these objects 
have any ornament of any kind upon them. ‘The Dluish-black 
colour, not amounting to a glaze, still remaining upon some of them 
arises, I believe, from their having been baked in the smoke of 
vegetable substances. 
Of the rough-looking but brittle sand-coloured ware only a few, 
and those fragmentary specimens were found. ‘The spout and 
handle of a large jug, probably a wine jar, a small two-handled 
-amphora-shaped poculum, and two portions of lamps, perforated for 
their wicks, and discoloured by burning, are the best of these. 
A dull red clay, and a whitish clay coated with red, both very 
inferior to Samian in tint and lustre, seem to have been sparingly 
employed for pocula, jugs, and patere, of which last but scanty 
remains and no uninjured specimens were discovered. Judging 
from the fragments of the dishes, they must have been small in size, 
and few in number. There were some much worn pieces of a 
“mortarium,” with its lining of sharp stones, for the abrasion of 
vegetables or grain. Of these two diminutive objects, both in fair 
preservation, one may have been, I think, the “salinum,” or salt 
cellar, the other the “acetabulum,” or vinegar bowl of the.Roman 
