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Pottery. Mr. J. P. E. Falconer found in 1898, and still possesses, 
a curious little female figure seated with a cloak wrapped round it, 
and the head enveloped as in a hood. It is of hard fine red terra- 
cotta, but whether of ancient or modern date has not as yet been 
authoritatively decided. In consequence of the way in which the 
site has been disturbed many times before, it was scarcely possible 
to assert of any object found that from its position it must have 
been of Roman age. 
Of vessels of pottery a considerable number of fragments oc- 
eurred, though with one exception! nothing like a whole vessel of 
any sort was found. 
(1) Of good red Samian ware we only found four small frag- 
ments. These were all without ornament, two of them belong 
to a small flat saucer with upright edge, the others to a larger 
and thicker bowl. Ten fragments were found by Mr. Falconer 
in 1898, including one with the potter’s name, REGINVS. 
(2) Two fragments, of wide bowl-shaped vessels with a broad 
overhanging flange,” of a coarse red on the surface, and grey 
The one exception was a curious vessel, of which some fragments were 
' found in 1898, and passed into the hands of Mr. Falconer, whilst others were 
found in the recent excavations, all in made soil filled with all sorts of 
_ rubbish, Roman and Wedgewood fragments lying side by side, on or outside 
the northern boundary wall. These fragments were of a buff-coloured ware 
ornamented with scrolls, &c., in relief in the same coloured slip—the ornament 
being analogous somewhat to that of some of the Castor ware from Durobrive, 
near Peterborough, and still more of certain pots from Cologne, of Roman 
date, in the Guildhall Museum. When put together, however, they formed 
a vessel in the shape of a somewhat globular fish, on a stand, with a ring 
handle at the top, which was entirely closed over, a funnel-shaped opening 
projecting on one side of the handle and a small straight spout on the other ; 
—altogether, if it had been ancient, a very remarkable find, I happened, 
however, to have a modern vessel, brought from the South of Spain, with 
precisely the same spout and funnel-shaped mouth, with almost precisely 
‘similar raised slip ornament, and of a very similar material and make, and 
~ when the two were set side by side it was generally allowed that the Box 
example was of practically the same ware and must also be of modern Spanish 
make. Since then I have seen an example of this same ware of fish shape 
like the Box pot. 
2 Gen. Pitt Rivers, Excavations, III., p. 144, gives a cut showing the way 
in which he believes these flanged vessels were used, the flange being intended 
for the purpose of supporting them on the frame of an iron tripod, possibly 
- over a charcoal fire. 

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