Notes on Food-Vessels from Oldburi/ Ilill. 293 



draining the moisture from various articles of food, or possibly 

 draining honey from the comb. 



From the fragments of pottery we were able successfully to restore 

 one vessel and half of another. The three are of the same size—" 

 about 4in. in height and 5^in. in width, of simple bowl shape, two 

 of them with almost straight sides, and square rims, the other 

 slightly wider at the top than at the base, without ornamentation 

 or handles, resembling in general appearance and size, the example 

 found in- a dwelling-hole within the same camp by the late Mr. H. 

 Cunnington (see If^ilts Mag., xxiii., 217). They are hand-made of 

 very fine well-burnt clay, probably of Romano-British date, and it 

 is only by close examination that it can be seen that they were not 

 turned on the wheel. Two of them are of a reddish brown colour, 

 carefully tooled and polished on the outside, the pottery of which 

 they are composed being identical with fragments found on Cold 

 Kitchen Hill, 1893, now in the Museum (see p. 289), but unlike 

 anything known to Gen. Pitt- Rivers from the villages near Rushmore. 



Of the three " loom-weights '' before mentioned, two are formed" 

 of hard chalk and one of a stone resembling the calcareous concretions 

 found in the Oxford Clay. They are precisely like those from 

 Westbury, already in the Society's Museum — rudely formed, 

 flattened on two sides and tapering to one end, where a hole is bored 

 for suspension.* 



Oldbury Hill abounds with remains of the ancient inhabitants, 

 and many interesting relics would reward the further researches of 

 the antiquary. The depression mentioned by the Rev. A. C. Smith> 

 Antiq. NoHh Wills, p. 96, should be examined, and the whole area 

 of the camp trenched throughout. 



[The illustration of the two most perfect of the vessels is from a photograph by 

 the Rev. B. W. Bradford.] 



' A set of about twenty of 'these weights was found in the excavations at 

 Westbury Iron Works. They were unfortunately exposed to the frost, and 

 with -the exception of those which are now in the Museum were shivered to pieces. 



