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handle is inch from the rim, the total height of the handle 

 being zf inches. The colour of the vessel is a light reddish- 

 brown ; it consists of clay, apparently without any grains of 

 quartz or other material, and, therefore, is an example of the 

 " No. 2 British Pottery " of Pitt-Rivers. 



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A food-vessel very closely resembling that under consideration 

 and especially with regard to its form was found in a barrow 

 at Frome Whitfield, in which three human skeletons, &c., 

 were also found (Dorset County Museum, No. Cioi). This 

 food-vessel is ornamented with two bands of roughly-incised 

 horizontal lines, between which are similar incised lines 

 arranged in chevrons. Another one-handled food-vessel, about 

 2-J inches in height, was found in 1895 by Mr. J. C. Mansel- 

 Pleydell in a barrow at Bagber, near Milton Abbas (Dorset 

 County Museum, No. C52). One, apparently very small, from 

 Dorset is figured by Jewitt.* Another of this type, ^\ inches in 

 height and 4 inches in diameter at mouth, was found before 

 1868 in the Isle of Portland, with " the handle, or ear, at one 

 side, precisely resembling that of the modern teacup." f 



* Grave Mounds, p. 106, Fig. 120. 

 t Archaeological Journal, Vol. XXV., p. 49, Fig. 5. 



