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shield. A pair of scissors has been found, and iron rings occur, 

 fitted to links of such a form and size as to indicate horse-bits *. 

 Of bronze instruments the most remarkable are fibulae. 



POTTERY. 



This is the least abundant of the old ware found in York- 

 shire, only five good specimens, besides fragments, having yet 

 reached the central Museum f. Some of these are in substance 

 as coarse as the rude Brigantian vessels, though thinner and 

 more firmly compacted in the making, and somewhat more 

 thoroughly hardened and blackened; perhaps by smoke-drying 

 and long-continued heat. The style of these urns is entirely 

 different from British specimens ; it seems rather to be formed 

 in imitation of metallic vessels, on which small ornaments were 

 repeated by stamping in circular lines, or in the angular com- 

 partments of a zigzag wreath, or in clusters. The reflexed lip of 

 the ordinary examples is quite unlike the British hoop, and yet 

 not like the more complete Roman moulding. In the ruder sorts 

 at least the wheel was not used. The general outline seems to 

 show an acquaintance with classical models as might be ex- 

 pected from the fact, that Roman ware is found in the Anglo- 

 Saxon graves of KentJ. The outline is usually concave from 

 the lip downward and to about half the height, and thence 

 convex to the base; so that, at about the middle, the vessel 

 swells out much the space immediately above the swelling being 

 sometimes suddenly contracted. The small ornaments impressed 

 on our Yorkshire urns are represented in PL XXXIII. 



Anglo-Saxon combs have ornaments of similar patterns. 



NAMES OF PLACES. 



The completeness of the Anglo-Saxon conquest in all the 

 eastern parts of Britain is evident by the almost universal scat- 

 tering of the termination ton in all the more level regions, and 



* Wellbeloved's Descriptive Account. f Ibid. 



J Wright, p. 421. 



