298 Notes on the Discovery of Romano- British Kilns and Potterij 



but lower down the hardening process appears to have had less effect. 

 In thickness this urn varies very much, in some places it is |in. 

 thick and in others not \m. The bottom — which one would naturally 

 suppose to be the thickest part, measures about lin. 



The other urns are — like the largest one — only partially burnt 

 and in an irregular degree over the whole surface, but their rims 

 appear to have been subjected to the greatest heat. 



The urns appear to have been made of a fine clay or clay-puddle 

 mixed with grit, and the greater part of the surface when baked is 

 grey or black. 



Large urns for storing corn and other products, some much ex- 

 ceeding in size those we have found, are still made in Morocco and 

 other parts of Africa and in South America. At Tetuan huge jars 

 are still made and fired in rude furnaces, which, judging from the 

 description given in a short paper in a recent publication, must 

 resemble in a great degree the Wiltshire kilns of which I have 

 spoken. 



Archdeacon Farrar, in conversation with one of the Members of 

 our Society, informed him that the method of digging an oven in 

 the earth and connecting it with a channel to serve as a flue had 

 been commonly adopted by the Jews when camping round Jerusalem, 

 before the Passover ; and 1 would draw attention to the fact that 

 the same method of making an oven is used in the British army 

 to-day when engaged in a campaign. 



In October, 1893, I again visited Broomsgrove and unearthed 

 talf of the top stone of a large quern, measuring 2|ft. across and 

 about 6in. in depth. It has an oblong groove cut from the central 

 hole to the depth of about lin,, Z^in. long, and lin. wide. The 

 inner surface of this quern is very much worn and scored, and it 

 appears to me possible that it was used for grinding and mixing 

 the clay from which the urns were made. 



A short time before a beautifully shaped vase of red ware was 

 unearthed about Sin. below the surface and a few yards from where 

 the kilns were discovered. This little vase had originally been 

 glazed, but most of the glazing had shaled off. It stands 4^in. 



