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bottom swelling out into a larger body which has round it a 
band of simple crossed lines slightly marked on the wet clay 
narrowing somewhat to the wide mouth, which has a wide 
everted rim, These vessels, also, are some of them blackened 
with soot. 
- More than three-quarters of all the pottery found was of 
this common black ware, and belonged to vessels of the three 
above-named shapes. 
(9) One fragment of a thin ware, red in substance, but black 
on the surface, containing minute grains of mica throughout 
its substance, apparently part of a small bowl. 
(9«) Another fragment of a still smaller and thinner bowl also 
has specks of mica. It is black on the surface and grey-brown 
in the substance. 
(10). A very hard ware, grey in the substance and reddish- 
yellow on the surface, furnished several fragments. It seems 
to be of a ware similar to fragments found in a Romano-British 
dwelling-pit at Corton, in Hilmarton, and also by Gen. Pitt 
tivers in the Rushmore villages. 
(11) <A few pieces of coarse yellow and green glazed ware were 
doubtless medieval. 
Bones: Hardly any bones were found, except the two leg bones 
of a cock with very large spurs, which were found amongst the 
floor debris, and are pretty certainly of Roman age. 
Metal Objects. Absolutely the only objects in metal discovered 
were :— 
(A) The corroded and decomposed fragments of a pewter or 
white metal jug found in Hypocaust X. of which there is just 
enough to show that it had a small long neck, and a handle, 
64in. in length, and a body tapering to a small base, 3}in. in 
diameter. A similar vessel, also in a fragmentary condition, is 
in Reading Museum, from Silchester ; and there also examples 
in other museuis. 
(B) Also in this hypocaust X, amongst the stone pillars was 
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