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three inches and a half high, and two inches and a half wide at the 
top, of a bluish-grey colour; on one side is represented a stag, which 
from its horns and shape I should call a red deer; on the other a dog, 
like a large greyhound, which appears to be of a similar variety to 
that now used in Scotland for red-deer hunting, and which may 
be seen at the Duke of Athol’s. The animals are in high relief. 
I was fortunate in obtaining this specimen perfect, as well as one 
small piece of Samian pottery, which has no stamp, but four orna- 
ments on the rim, by some considered a leaf: this pattern of Samian 
ware is often found in the graves of Romans, or Romanized Britons. 
One bottle also was found perfect, of a light brown colour, which 
would hold near a quart, and larger than any lacrymatory I have 
ever seen found in England, and probably, like the other bottle-shaped 
vessels, it held oil, milk, or wine. The other pieces of pottery were 
more or less broken, many of them old fractures, including the urns 
containing the calcined bones. I have parts of five or six different- 
shaped Samian vessels, three or four funereal bottles, also some 
fragments of wood, perhaps Armille; the diameter of one is three 
inches and a half, the other two inches and a half; and more 
than two hundred short iron nails, much decomposed, and very 
similar to those now used in countrymen’s shoes, which appeared to 
have been inserted into some decayed substance in a circle of eight or 
ten inches, and which was probably a buckler. There are two shields 
in the British Museum, one in particular having iron ornaments very 
like in shape to these nails: both are said to be British. It is rare to 
find ornamented funereal vessels in England, except on Samian pottery. 
Burning the body and putting the bones into urns, surrounded with 
more or less ornamented vessels and articles of value, according to 
the wealth and circumstances of the deceased, is of the earliest 
date; the bones having always the greatest respect paid to them. 
