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raise the ground by carrying material in to it. When excava- 

 tions were made for the foundations of the library extension at 



Fig. 12. Section seen along St Andrew's Street in digging foundations of 

 new Library etc. at Christ's College, 1895. 



a. Made ground of recent date. 



b. Bricked chamber filled with rubbish. 



c. Black silt with early mediaeval remains. 



d. Gravel and sand. 



Christ's College in 1895, there was only about 2 feet of soil and 

 made ground resting on the gravel (fig. 12). There were pits, 

 extending down into the gravel to a depth of 7 feet from the 

 surface, which were full of household rubbish. Among the 

 objects found were : 



A. Dark grey ware, many of the forms of which have persisted from 

 Roman times, while in many the rim is natter and more strongly recurved 1 . 

 The ornamentation occasionally, and the association always, connects them 

 with mediaeval remains. 



B. A brown coarse ware with white specks of calcined flint such as are 

 commonly seen in ancient British pottery. Some of the fragments resemble 

 portions of mortaria such as are found in this district with Roman remains, 

 and many of the larger vessels are ornamented by impressed finger marks. 

 Compare for A and B the Horningsea pottery 2 and that from the older deposits 

 in the King's Ditch 3 . 



C. Red ware of the 15th and 16th centuries. 



D. Green glazed ware probably 16th and 17th centuries. 



E. Cullen (Cologne) ware 16th and 17th centuries. The specimens found 

 here were of late date. 



F. Red ware 17th and 18th centuries. 



G. Brown glazed ware 17th century. 



H. Tobacco pipes early 17th century, do. William III. 

 I. Horse shoe with low calkin. Old English. 

 K. Perforated pieces of bone and pottery. 



L. Large glass flagons and pieces of window glass much decomposed and 

 iridescent. 



1 Archaeological Journal, Vol. LIX. No. 235, p. 219, PI. 1. 



2 Proc. Camb. Ant. Soc. R. XLV. xxxiii. May 4, 1885. 



3 Ib. Vol. vm. Jan. 25, 1892, p. 32, PI. 3. 



