218 EECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN CORNWALL. 



Pottery : — Samian 

 ware (red, glazed) 



1 ditto ; one fragment ; from Tregaer or 



bulge downward a vertical Boscarne. 

 round-headed fluted design, 

 fimbriated ; dotted and 

 other lines above ; over 

 which a band of scrolls, with 

 small hares [&c.?] looking 

 to the right. The band is 

 narrower than those in 

 similar position described 

 above. The glaze is of 

 somewhat deeper red. [All 

 other parts of vessel lost]. 

 Size, same as foregoing or 

 perhaps rather less. 



Another circular foot of a „ „ 



patella ; 



Diameter 3 -in. 

 Depth |-in. 



A potter's stamp (almost 

 illegible from injury) is 

 impressed on the bottom of 

 the interior of the vessel, 

 within a central circle. The 

 letters seem to resemble : — 



IVNIIO 

 for "Junii officina," — from 

 the laboratory of Junius.* 



Length of stamp, f-in. 



Height of letters, 1 / 5 in. 



A third circular patella-foot ; „ „ 



fragment ; 



Diam. of foot 3-ins. 

 Depth „ f-in. 



A small portion of the potter's 

 stamp remains within cent- 

 ral circle inside vessel ; only 

 one letter can be read. 

 ...V...its height, ^-in. 



Fragment, with glaze on Lander's stream- 



one side, measuring only 1^ by work, Boscarne. 

 1 by f-in. 



* After determining that this was most probably the reading, I noticed 

 instances of very similar legends on potters' stamps. Professor Hubner has given 

 the following, in his Corpus (Inscr. Brit. Lat.) :— At Cricklade, Kent, "in 

 patellis quatuor formarum diversarum, ivnivs (Junius) ;" at Cambridge, in Clare 

 Hall Library, from Litlington, s. ivnivs ; at Csersws, Montgomeryshire, " intra 

 in circulo scriptum ivno ; potest legi Jun[ii] o[meina] sed lectio incerta est." 

 This last remark will equally apply to the reading I have given above. 



