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oven itself. Rough bricks and tiles formed their furniture, and squat 

 clay cylinders were commonly found, and must have been used as supports 

 and to facilitate the even passage of the gases through the furnace. The 

 pots manufactured were commonly hard well-finished grey ware, but a 

 type of reeded flanged mortaria in pale buff and smooth rose-red ware 

 were also made. Smooth whitish-yellow ware with decoration in red 

 paint was manufactured here in the late fourth century. 



Other Sites in East Yorkshire. 



Numerous other Roman sites in the Malton area have been partially 

 explored or identified. Among them are the waste heaps of a pottery 

 at Knapton,^ about seven miles from Malton on the road to Filey. Here 

 extensive manufacture of hand-made cooking pots in calcite-gritted 

 ware was carried on in the third and fourth centuries, but, so far as we 

 know, their distribution was confined to Malton and district. 



Another series of pottery kilns, somewhat similar to those at Crambeck, 

 were explored in 1930 at Throlam, near Holme-on-Spalding Moor. 

 Here a great mound about 100 ft. in diameter, locally known as Pot Hill,® 

 was composed largely of broken sherds. In its centre were found a 

 series of superimposed kilns. The best preserved of these differed 

 from the Crambeck kilns in having a vertical chimney and two rough 

 pillars supporting its oven floor. The vast quantity of pottery examined 

 mostly fell into five types, of a rather earlier nature than those made at 

 Crambeck. It may be conjectured that the products of this pottery 

 and of other similar pottery sites in the neighbourhood were designed 

 mainly to supply the fort at Brough-on-Humber, though Throlam types 

 have been found at Langton. 



X 



EDUCATION IN YORK 



BY 



GEO. H. GRAY, 

 Secretary for Education, York. 



Outstanding amongst the names of the great whose birth or careers are 

 enshrined in the long history or York is that of one, Alcuin, in the eighth 

 century. Alcuin's fame was that of a scholar in days when prowess 



* A Roman Villa at Langton, etc. By Philip Corder and John L. Kirk, 1932, 

 Appendix. (Yorks. Arch. Soc.) 



* The Roman Pottery at Throlam, Holme-on-Spalding Moor, East Yorkshire. 

 By Philip Corder, 1930. (Yorks. Arch. Soc.) 



