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Anglo-Saxon Pottery. 



scribed in his three successive volumes, which are, or ouglit to 

 be, in the library of every English antiquary.* It has thus 

 become an established fact that the varied remains of the tribes, 

 all of Teutonic descent, who settled on the borders of the Bo- 

 man empire along the whole extent of country from Great 

 Britain to Switzerland, present the same character and bear a 

 close resemblance. 



**/•' A few figures will be sufficient to illustrate this resemblance 

 as far as regards the pottery, and these are given in our group 



NO. II. — PEAKEISH AND ALEIIANNIC POTTERY. 



No. II., in which Figs. 4 and 5 are Alemannic vases from the 

 cemetery of Selzen. It will be seen that they resemble exactly in 

 form those East Anglican urns we have given in our plate, and 

 the same ornamentation is also found among our Anglo-Saxon 

 pottery. These urns are described as being usually made of 

 the clay of the neighbourhood, in most cases turned on a lathe, 

 but many of them imperfectly baked. They are found in graves 

 where the body had not undergone cremation, and were used 

 for containing articles of a miscellaneous description. In one 



* La Normandie Souterraine, ou Notices sur des Cimetieres Eomains et des 

 Cimetieres Francs explores en Normandie, par M. l'Abbe Cochet. Second edition. 

 8vo. Paris, 1855. — Sepultures Gaidoises, Romaines, Franques, et Normandes, 

 faisent state a "La Normandie Souterraine" par M. l'Abbe Cochet. 8vo. 

 Paris, 1857.— Le Tombeau de Childeric I" lloi des Francs, par M. l'Abbe Cochet. 

 8vo. Paris, 1859. 



