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Pottery: — Samian* 

 ware (red, glazed) 



Vessels of fine quality, 

 adorned in relief,f cast from 

 moulds. Fragments of three 

 upper and three lower portions 

 of (perhaps five) elegant dishes 

 or bowls, viz. — 



1 patera or patella ; three frag- 

 ments ; one piece displaying 

 a band of overlapping vine 

 leaves, running to left on 

 bulge; dotted and other 

 lines above; over them a 

 band of flowering scrolls ; 

 below, rosettes and varied 

 panels ; [only two small 

 fragments of circular foot 

 remain ; brim and bottom 

 lost]. 



Height of vessel [probably 

 4g-ins.] 



Diam, at mouth [probably 

 9-ins.] 



Exterior diam. at bulge, 8-ins. 



Exterior diam. of foot, 3-ins. 



Depth of foot, §-in. 



1 ditto ; two small fragments ; 

 — above bulge, dotted and 

 other lines enclose a band of 

 crouching hares and fork- 

 tailed birds placed alter- 

 nately, all looking to the left 

 and separated from each 

 other by vertical pairs of 

 rosettes ; [remainder of 

 ornament lost] ; size of 

 vessel, apparently same as 

 above, but band rather 

 narrower. 



Tregaer camp, 

 and Boscarne stream 

 works on opposite 

 side of river. 



Dug out from 

 the gripe of the 

 camp. 



Taken from 

 stream work (Lan- 

 der's ?) Boscarne. 



* There were Roman potteries in Britain, in Gaul and elsewhere. Many 

 places (such asNola, &c), were famous for beautiful fictile productions, hut three 

 were distinguished above all others for the extent and excellence of the manu- 

 facture : — 1, Samos ; 2, Athens ; 3, Etruria. Samian ware, Pliny states, was 

 exported " to every nation under heaven," and Wheatly (Pottery, p. 10) writes 

 that it is ''found wherever the Romans settled." 



f The raised designs were not formed by the addition of slip, as in Durobri- 

 vian or Castor ware manufactured in this country in imitation of Samian, (see 

 Jewitt's G. Mounds, p. 154). There is a considerable difference between that 

 from Samos and that made probably in Britain (Wheatly, p. 11). 



