RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN CORNWALL. 



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Pottery : — (Drab, 

 brownish, yellow- 

 ish, and dusky, 

 unglazed. 



Glass : — 



Stone Vessel : — 



1 handle fragment ; concave 

 along face, with wavy mar- 

 gin, and pits (3) produced by 

 end of stick* ; bluish grey, 

 stony looking, with much 

 mica. 

 [Besides the fragmentary 

 clay vessels, mentioned above, 

 found at or near Tregaer, there 

 is an entire urn or small 

 mouthed jar in the collection, 

 which has the appearance of 

 being Roman, but where it was 

 found is doubtful. 



An entry in the Bodmin 

 Museum catalogue refers to an 

 ancient urn discovered between 

 two old houses in the town, 

 and this may be the same]. 



A beadf ; opaque blue-green ; 

 resembling green bronze, 

 and at first sight mistaken 

 for it ; coirugated with 17 

 ribs parallel to the bore. 



Length, |-in. 



Diam. f-in. 



Diam. of bore, |-in. 



Piece of black glass [now 

 lost] found with Roman pottery 

 and deposited with same in 

 Bodmin Museum. 



A pebble ; circular, and some- 

 what flat but rounded every 

 way ; hollowed out to form 

 a little bowl. X 



Exterior diam., 1^-in. 



Interior ,, 1-in. 



Height, I -in. 



Supposed to 

 to same 

 collection. 



Taken from Lan- 

 der's tin stream 

 work, Boscarne, 

 when first worked 

 by him in 1849. 



Supposed to be 

 from same neigh- 

 bourhood as the 

 other re 1 i as. 



*Eesembles Roman ware made in some parts of Britain, — Upchurch ware, &c; 

 compare it also with handle of the great pitcher (given by me to the Museum at 

 Truro) which was found full of tin in a stream-work in the neighbourhood of 

 Lanivet, not far from Tregaer. 



fOne of exactly the same form is shewn by Jewitt (Gr. Mounds, fig. 296, 

 p. 1861, who writes respecting it : — Beads are perhaps the most frequently found 

 of any remains of Roman glass. 



J About the size of a British "incense-cup." Bowls of stone (sometimes of 

 granite) occur in many localities. In Cornwall several have been found. Dr. 

 Borlase gives sections, &c. of three stone paterse turned on lathe, (Antiq. pi. xxi). 

 On the continent the Romans had pot-stone turned into cooking vessels. 



