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consists chiefly of cooking vessels. Most of them seem to be 

 made without any attempt at uniformity of pattern. Even in 

 the case of the pipkin, which is one of the commonest vessels, 

 we seldom find two handles exactly alike. Some are solid, flat, 

 and tapering, some are round and perforated, some with one 

 kind of ornament, some with another. In some the hole through 

 the handle passes into the vessel, in others the perforated handle 

 is closed at the end next the vessel and stuck on over any 

 grooves or lines that may have been drawn on the vessel. 

 Some have the clay of the handle pinched out into a flower- 

 like pattern, others have only two indents, while in others the 

 impressions are smoothed away altogether. 



The oldest class of remains which I procured were the 

 fragments of black pottery of which I have already offered a 

 description to the Society, and which in my opinion represent 

 ordinary cooking vessels, which, with slight modifications, 

 were handed down from Roman times to the 16th or 17th 

 century. They are of the form of the Roman olla, often with 

 a rounded and slightly recurved rim, and so exactly similar to 

 those found associated with undoubted Roman remains that 

 when I exhibited some of them at the Soc. Antiq. of London 

 some high authorities said I had made a mistake somewhere, 

 and that they were Roman. In a plate accompanying my 

 paper on the Cambridge ditches 1 read before this Society, and 

 in that read before the Archaeological Institute on the early 

 potters' art in Britain 2 , I gave a series of sections of these rims, 

 showing the transition from the common rounded form to that 

 which is flattened out and strongly bent back upon the bulging 

 side of the vessel, and these last are the forms which are dis- 

 tinctive of medieval times. 



There were pipkins, and pans, and stewing pots of various 

 kinds ; and, as time went on, faience appeared among them. 



There are pieces of Delft of considerable beauty, and white 

 ware approaching Leeds in appearance. There is a good deal 

 of the mottled ware originally imported from Cologne and 



1 Proc. Camb. Ant. Soc. Vol. vm. Jan. 25, 1892, p. 44, PL m. 



2 Archaeological Journ. Vol. LIX. No. 235, pp. 219, 237, PI. i. 



