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them ; others were scattered, and some were brought to me 

 and handed over by me to the Bursar. Among these, besides 

 pottery of no special interest, were remains of shoes, some of 

 which were exactly like those I procured from the King's 

 Ditch, and figured in the Proceedings of the Society 1 . What 

 strikes one about them is that some are so small that, even 

 allowing for the youth of the students in former times, we can 

 hardly suppose that they belonged to the inmates of the 

 College, and, to explain them, we fall back upon the generalisa- 

 tion arrived at from a consideration of all the circumstances 

 and from an examination of adjoining areas, namely, that these 

 small shoes were probably brought with the rubbish carried 

 here to raise the level of the ground. 



The objects found here range over the whole of the mediaeval 

 times represented by the deposits in the Cambridge ditches 

 which I have already described 2 , viz. the dark grey earthenware 

 cooking vessel (PI. II., fig. 1) and the pipkin (fig. 5). The dark 

 grey earthenware vessels varying in the form of the rim from 

 the rounded recurved rim, undistinguishable from many found 

 with Roman remains, to the strongly bent back flat rim, as 

 shown in PI. III., are the oldest type found, and are most 

 abundant near the base in the black silt. There are many 

 varieties of common earthen jug or crock with round or flat 

 fluted handles, on which sometimes a more detailed impressed 

 ornament occurs ; and also vessels with a rough ornament 

 brushed on in a lighter coloured clay, and several varieties of 

 green or brown and yellow glaze. Bellarmines, or Cullen ware, 

 are not uncommon, but glass is exceedingly rare. In all exca- 

 vations in the eastern part of the College, gravel is found under 

 the made ground, but no alluvium. The alluvium comes on 

 under Nevile's Court. 



In cutting a deep drain, in October, 1893, down the lane 

 which runs along the south-west side of the first court of 

 St John's College, a thick wall was crossed obliquely near the 

 St John's Street end of the lane. The most easterly point 

 where it was seen was at the corner of the railings which 



1 Proc. Gamb. Ant. Soc. Vol. vm. Oct. 23, 1893, p. 275. 



2 Proc. Camb. Ant. Soc. Vol. vm. Jan. 25, 1892, pp. 4150, p. 53. 



