214 The New Forest ; its Historij and its Scenery. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



THE ROMAN AND ROMANO-BllITISH POTTERIES. 



"Wine-Flask, Drinkio^-Cups, and Bowls. 



From time to time the labourer, in draining or planting in the 

 Forest, digs down upon pieces of earthenware, whilst in the 

 turfy spots the mole throws up the black fragments in her 

 mound of earth. The names, too, of Crockle — Crock Kiln — 

 and Panshard Hill, have from time immemorial marked the site 

 of at least two potteries. Yet even these had escaped all notice 

 until Mr. Bartlett, in 1853, gave an account of his excavations, • 

 and showed the large scale on which the Romans carried on 



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