38 On Roman Remains found at Holbury, near Dean. 
table. An olla of small size, and some drinking cups of the whiter 
paste, some partially broken pocula of the red ware, with bands of 
slight tool-work upon them, portions of an elegantly shaped jug, 
and an oil flask, entire, with the exception of its handle, the two 
last-named vessels, ornamented with white, are the most interesting 
specimens I have to lay before you. 
But the bulk of the pottery exhumed was of the harder stronger 
ware to which I have referred, and consisted mainly of bases, lips 
and broken pieces of hundreds of drinking cups, ranging in size 
from the cyathus, or twelfth part of a pint, to the sextarius, or full 
measure; the intermediate vessels were called sextantes, quadrantes, 
&c., according to the number of cyathi they contained. There were 
portions also, but no perfect examples, of larger jars and wide- 
mouthed bottles. Of the pocula many have the well-known thumb 
indentations: there is a fragment with circular ones, made perhaps 
by turning the cushion of the thumb round in the clay: others 
have rude attempts at ornamentation, by rough tooling and lines, 
or by dots and streakings of white; but all are of a low class of art. 
Two only, both of them broken, pretend to something beyond, one 
having impressed roundels worked upon it, and the other a slight 
flowing pattern, laid on in cream-coloured pipeclay. I have suc- 
ceeded in putting together sufficient fragments of a larger jar or 
bottle, to show the effect of the more elaborate roundels which 
adorned it; and I have portions, which I cannot unite, of a jug» 
which was decorated with diamonds formed by the intersection o¢ 
double lines of white. Besides these there are sundry small pieces 
of other cups or vessels of unknown shape, one of which was orna- 
mented with delicate lathe-wrought tooling, another with an em- 
bossed pattern, a third with overlapping scales, laid on like tiles 
upon aroof. A perfect poculum of this description, found at Caistor 
in Northamptonshire, is figured in Chaffer’s “ Marks and Monograms 
on Pottery and Porcelain,” page 16. And here are necks of two 
small bottles, one of them with a pattern of intersecting circles, 
the other with a ring of white dots upon it. 
Of the lustrous red ware known as “Samian,” very little was 
found; the largest fragment being a portion of a shallow vessel 
