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The Roman Villa at Box. 
in the inner part of the substance, which has apparently been 
coloured a rich red by some paint or glaze. Similar painted 
ware, a piece of a mortarium, is in Reading Museum, from 
Silchester. 
(3) Five fragments of the very hard purplish brown (grey in 
the substance) New Forest ware, two of them belonging to 
an upright vase with the usual indented sides, the projections 
ornamented with lines and dots in conspicuous white paint. 
(4) One frayment of a mortarium, of ware red inside but 
coloured stone-colour on the surface. 
(4a) Two bits of brick-coloured bowls, which have been coloured 
a better red on the surface. 
(5) Two fragments of the lid of a vessel like an old-fashioned 
teapot ld. They are closely covered with an impressed orna- 
nent difficult to describe. At first I thought they were modern, 
but Mr. Mill Stephenson, who has had so much experience 
at Silchester, saw them and pronounced them to be, in his 
opinion, Roman. Since then I have seen two or three fragments 
in the Reading Museum from Silchester, covered with this 
same “engine-turned” ornament, and very similar to these. 
In the York Museum are a good many fragments of red ware, 
unglazed, and of black ware, having this same ornament, and 
one fragment having the same metallic glaze. 
In Vol. III, Plate CLXXXVIL, fig. 5, of his Hxzcavations, 
Gen. Pitt Rivers figures a fragment from Woodyates settlement 
with apparently exactly the same pattern, of which he says 
“T have not been able to find any example of this ornamen- 
tation in other works, but similar patterns appear recently to 
have been found at Silchester.” Again, in Vol. II., Plate 
CLXXIX., fig. 3, is shown a fragment with somewhat similar 
ornament, of which he says “The interior has a lustre on the 
surface which gives it the appearance of having been sized.” 
The Box specimens have this curious dark bluish metallic 
lustre, the ware itself in the inside being greyish buff. 
Another fragment of buff ware coloured dull reddish brown 
on the surface has a more wavy ornament of the same character, 

