308 Mr. Tate on the Celtic Town at Greaoes Ash. 



is situated 25 feet west of the inner rampier. This hut is 25 

 feet in diameter, with an entrance 7 feet wide on the east, 

 with a floor partly flagged and partly paved, and with a 

 course of flags across the door-way raised 4 inches above the 

 level of the floor. Within were found a greeii glass bead and 

 a Quern, and in the centre burnt wood. The entire cor- 

 respondency in the form and structure of the hut with those 

 at Greaves Ash, warrants the conclusion, that the Chesters 

 camp and the Greaves Ash fortified town belong to the same 

 age and people. 



Relics Found. — Pottery. All the pottery found at Greaves 

 Ash, and most of that at the Chesters and Brough-law, are of 

 the coarsest kind, made of common clay, out of which even 

 pebbles have not been removed. This pottery is thick, some 

 fragments being as much as three-fourths of an inch in thick- 

 ness, plain, and entirely destitute of ornament. It has however 

 been burnt by fire, though imperfectly, for the exterior is a 

 reddish brown and the centre black ; it appears to have been 

 fashioned, not by a lathe, but by the hand. Judging from 

 the curve of the fragments and the bottom of one vessel, some 

 of the vessels had been of a large size and shaped like a jar. 

 Plate 8, fig. 1, is part of the bottom of a vessel found at 

 Greaves Ash ; and Jig. 2 is the bottom of a small pot from 

 the Chesters, which had been 7 inches in circumference. 

 Fragments blackened on the outside by smoke, indicate that 

 some of these vessels had been used for cooking food. This 

 pottery shows a low state of fictile art ; but it corresponds 

 with that obtained from Celtic sepulchres in Northumberland, 

 and although destitute of the scorings on sepulchral urns, I 

 do not hesitate to ascribe it to the Celtic race. 



A fragment of pottery from Brough-law is thinner, harder, 

 better burnt, and made of finer clay than the other pottery 

 found ; but the fragment is too small to guide us to the shape 

 of the vessel, and it would be unsafe to found any conclusion 

 upon it, especially as there are evidences of secondary occupa- 

 tion in this camp. 



Glass Bead. The glass bead — Plate 8, fig. 6 — found in 

 the hut circle of Chesters camp is globular, perforated in the 

 centre, translucent, of a light green colour, and three-fourths 

 of an inch in diameter. Beads occur associated with Roman 

 and Saxon, as well as with ancient British remains ; but 

 those of Roman manufacture are usually of elegant patterns 

 and formed of different pieces of coloured glass fused 



