BIRD BOLT HOTEL, CAMBRIDGE 435 



hence known as Cullen ware. The usual forms of bellarmine 

 or greybeard are well represented. 



There are a few pieces of glass, one of a very delicate thin 

 flask-like vessel, some bits of window glass, and a few pieces of 

 thick black glass flagons. Some of it was beautifully iridescent, 

 but readily flaked away. 



There are flowerpot-shaped vessels of a tough grey ware 

 deeply fluted horizontally inside and smoothed on the outside. 

 What purpose these deep uniform grooves were intended to 

 serve I cannot conjecture. 



The common patterns seen on the dark grey ware of 

 Horningsea are common, such as the vertical bands laid in 

 relief on coarse ware with thumb marks regularly impressed 

 along them (fig. 37), or the rough wavy lines incised horizon- 

 tally round the vessel when the clay was soft (fig. 36). 



There were (figs. 32, 33) small vessels, like two shallow 

 saucers connected by a stem, which may have been for condi- 

 ments, or perhaps for some sort of night-light or lamp. 



There was an immense quantity of dark grey ware still 

 black with the soot of the fire, and all the gradations from 

 those which exactly resemble the commonest Roman cooking 

 vessels to those with the strongly recurved flat broad rim which 

 as far as I have yet seen is distinctly mediaeval. 



A rough grey ware was occasionally found, which was burnt 

 reddish-brown on the inside and black-brown on the outside 

 with conspicuous white calcined chips of flint which are often 

 considered to be characteristic of British pottery, but are found 

 also in ware of undoubted Roman and mediaeval times. 



There were perforated handles which, when the hole passed 

 through into the vessels, seemed to be intended to be used as a 

 handle or a spout, and some vessels had a spout consisting of a 

 hole with a small rim and a flower-like margin as if it had been 

 pinched on. 



Some of the pipkins had a green glaze on the outside and 

 a lustrous brown glaze on the inside, while some were red and 

 green inside, the handle being squeezed on with a thumb- 

 pressed floriated pattern and a linear radiating ornament. 



There are all sorts of shallow pans, some with the sides 



