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found associated with an inferior quality of ware, was nearly absent 
in Woodyates, the proportion being no more than 0-03 per cent., as 
against 2°16 per cent. at Woodcuts, and 1°50 at Rotherley. The 
number of large handles for pitchers and small handles for saucers 
was exactly in the same proportion as at Woodcuts, viz., 0°32 per 
cent. A class of pottery, of soft cream-coloured texture in the 
interior of the substance and painted on the outside, was abundant 
at Woodyates, but rarely found in the other villages, the proportion 
being, in Woodyates, as much as 3°7 per cent., and in Woodcuts 
only 0-1 per cent., whilst in Rotherley one fragment only was 
found, This must be regarded as a superior class of pottery, and 
somewhat allied to the New Forest Ware in form.! New Forest 
Ware, hard and well-baked, was, in Woodyates, 3°9 per cent., 
against 0°78 per cent. in Woodcuts, and 0°9 per cent. in Rotherley. 
Samian pottery of the best quality was less abundant, being 0°9 in 
Woodyates, as against 2°1 in Woodeuts, and 2°3 in Rotherley. 
British imitation of Samian amounted to 0°6 per cent. in Woodyates, 
but was scarcely a recognizable quality in Woodcuts and Rotherley. 
Upon the whole, notwithstanding the small proportion of the best 
class of Samian, the ordinary pottery was of a superior quality in 
Woodyates to the other villages. 
The greater part of the fragments of pottery and iron nails were 
found to the westward of the settlement, in, about, and to the rear 
of the Fore Dyke, leading to the inference that this was the part 
chiefly inhabited, and that the ditches to the north and east must 
in all probability have been the boundary drains of fields rather 
than of inhabited areas; and this circumstance, together with the 
information derived from the workmen as to the former discoveries 
of Roman relics in the fields, on the surface, leads me to believe 
that the part hitherto excavated, probably consists of the outskirts 
of the settlement, and that the main body of it will eventually be 
found to run on to the south, in the direction of the present village 
of Woodyates. 
BS al ie RE en ERS Bt a Zi a 
* This quality of pottery is found in the Roman kilns at Crockle, in the New 
Forest. 
