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of poets or painters, as by the beauty of the articles in 

 daily use. 



And so still at Alderholt, not many miles off, the same beds of 

 clay are worked, and jars, and flasks, and dishes made, but with 

 a difference which may, perhaps, enable us to understand our 

 inferiority in Art to the former rulers of our island. 



What further we should see in the whole district, is the way 

 in which the Komans stamped their iron rule upon every land 

 which they conquered. Everywhere in the Forest remain their 

 traces. Urns, made at these potteries, full of their coins, have 

 been dug up at Anderwood and Canterton. Nails at Cadenham, 

 millstones at Studley Head, bricks at Bentley, iron slag at 

 Sloden, with the long range of embankments stretching from 

 wood to wood, and the camps at Buckland Kings and Eyeworth, 

 show that they well knew both how to conquer in war and to 

 rule in peace. 



Oil-Flask, Drinking- Cup a, Bowl, and Jar. 



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