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not other characteristic sorts of Anglo- Saxon pottery, though 

 the earthen vessels for domestic purposes are much more rarely 

 met with. We find sometimes in their graves small cups and 

 basins, the forms of which are evident imitations of Roman 

 earthenware, jugs of more Teutonic character, with or without 

 handles, in the former case the exact prototype of our medi- 

 aeval and old English jug ; and vessels of other descriptions. 

 One of these is represented in Fig. 3 of our cut No. I. It is a 

 vessel of pale red clay, between four and five inches high, and 

 was found by the late Mr. Rolfe of Sandwich, in one of the 

 Saxon graves opened by him at Ozingell, in Thanet. The ori- 

 ginal will be found in the museum of Mr. Mayer, who pur- 

 chased Mr. RohVs collections. 



If we had not abundant proofs of the Anglo-Saxon charac- 

 ter of this pottery at home, we should find sufficient evidences 

 of it among the remains of the kindred tribes on the Continent, 

 the old Germans, or Alemanni, and the Franks. Some years 

 ago an early cemetery, belonging to the Germans, or Alemanni, 

 who then occupied the banks of the Upper Rhine, was dis- 

 covered near a hamlet called Selzen, on the northern bank of 

 that river, not far above Mayence, and the rather numerous 

 objects found in it are, I believe, preserved in the Mayence 

 Museum. They were communicated to the public by the bro- 

 thers Lindenschmit, in a well illustrated volume published in 

 1848, under the title Das Germanische Todtenlager bei Selzen 

 in der Provinz Reinhessen. When this book appeared in Eng- 

 land, our antiquaries were astonished to find in the objects dis- 

 covered in the Alemannic cemeteries of the country bordering 

 on the Rhine a character entirely identical with that of their 

 own Anglo-Saxon antiquities, by which the close affinity of the 

 two races was strikingly illustrated. More recently, the sub- 

 ject has been further illustrated in the description by one of 

 the Lindenschmits (Ludwig) of the collection of the national, 

 antiquities in the Ducal Museum of Hohenzollern, published in 

 I860,* and in several other publications. About the same time 

 with the first labours of the Lindenschmits, a French antiquary, 

 Dr. Rigollot,was calling attention in France to similar discoveries 

 in the cemeteries which the Teutonic invaders of Picardy had 

 left behind them, and in which he recognized the same charac- 

 ter as that displayed by the similar remains of the Anglo- 

 Saxons in our island. Similar discoveries have been made in 

 Burgundy and in Switzerland, the ancient country of the Hel- 

 vetii ; and it is hardly necessary here to do more than mention 

 the great and valuable researches carried on by the Abbe Cochet 

 among the Frankish graves in Normandy, and so well de- 



* Die Vaterlandischen, Alterthumer der Filrstlich HoJienzoller 'scften Samm* 

 lungen zu Sigmaringen. 4to. Mainz, 1860. 



