On a $omano-f riti*h f rkk-kiln aab a 

 gJritish f arroto at fagber, JRilton 

 toith an historical psstrtation on 

 anb f rick-making. 



By J. C. MANSEL-PLEYDELL, Esq., F.G.S., F.L.S. 



Bead February llth, 1896. 



the year 1841 the late Mr. Charles Warne discovered 

 the site of a British-Roman kiln on Bagber Farm, in 

 the parish of Milton Abbas. It contained an 

 innumerable mass of broken pottery of various 

 qualities, the largest proportion being smooth and 

 close-grained, dark in colour, approaching black. 

 Mr. Warne's description so closely corresponding 

 with the pottery found in the Romano-British villages 

 of Woodcutts and Rotherly, &c., General Pitt-Rivers 

 thought it might have been derived from this kiln, and was desirous 

 to rediscover the site, which was difficult, as 50 years had elapsed 

 since Mr. Warne's examination, and all traces of it were obliterated ; 

 however, as these clay-deposits over the chalk are limited to the 

 summits and upper slopes of the hills and the area is consequently 

 very much restricted, I soon ran it to ground. 



These clay beds are derived from the Lower Tertiaries after 

 removal by denudation, they usually repose upon a bed of clay 

 with flints, resulting from the dissolution of the chalk by atmos- 



