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RECENT ARCHCEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN CORNWALL. 



Pottery : — (Drab, 

 brownish, yellow- 

 ish, and dusky, 

 unglazed). 



1 ditto ; brim-fragment ; drab, 

 yellowish tinge. 



Exterior diameter about 

 13|-in. 

 Width of brim, 2-ins. 



1 ditto ; base-fragment ; drab, 

 reddish tinge. 

 Diam. 5|-ins. 

 Thickness, § to f-in. 



1 side-fragment of large vessel ; 

 drab coarse clay. 

 Thickness, f-in. 



1 brim-fragment ; drab clay. 

 Thickness, l|-in. 



1 ditto; mouth of small thick 

 bowl or of a necked-vessel ; 

 buff colored soft clay. 



Exterior diam. of brim, 

 5-ins. 



Interior diam. of brim, 

 3|-ins. 



Thickness, about |-in. 



1 ditto; mouth of a small 

 necked vessel grooved 

 around within ; bright buff 

 colored clay. 



Exterior diam. of brim, 

 about 2-in. 



Interior diam. of neck, 

 about 1-in. 



1 part of handle of same (?), 



the piece being 2|-in. long. 



2 handle-stumps on fragments 



of neck of large vessel ; 

 amphora (?) ; drab coarse 

 clay. 



Thickness of handle, from 

 1± to If -in. 



Thickness of side, f-in. 



Tregaer 

 Boscarne. 



been traced by stamps of a similar class. "The Lesbian," — this name brings 

 before us associations connected with the islands which one after another fell 

 under the Roman sway. Lesbos (Mytilene) the largest and most important off 

 the west coast of Asia Minor was an island of note, and like Samos a little 

 further to the south, gave its name to persons, precious materials, arts and 

 pottery. We have already described Samian ware. Lesbian may be thus 

 defined : — fictilia decorated in relief by means of engraved-work invented by the 

 Lesbians; " Lesbium genus vasis caslati a Lesbis inventum " (Festus). The 

 Mortarium, — the brim of which is before us, stamped by Lesbius, — does not seem 

 to be of Lesbian ware, technically so called. 



