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colour — bearing unmistakeable traces of having been ex- 

 posed to fire and smoke. From this circumstance the Abbe 

 Cochet believes that these vases had served for ordinary do- 

 mestic purposes before they were deposited in the grave along 

 with the dead. 



I have yet another group of pottery to introduce, which 

 is given in our cut No. III. It consists of earthen vessels found 

 in the lacustrine habitations of Switzerland, of which so much has 

 been written during the last few years. I have taken them 

 from the plates illustrative of the communications of Dr. Ferdi- 

 nand Keller to the Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of 

 Zurich. I have seen some of this pottery strangely misappro- 

 priated, and feel surprised that, as far as I know, nobody has 

 pointed out its real character. The first of these examples, No. 

 III., Fig. 1 (which is Fig. 23 of Plate ii. of the Mittheilungen der 

 Antiquarischen Oesellschaft in Zurich, band xiv., heft 1), is a 

 fine vase found in the Pfahlbauten, as these lacustrine habita- 

 tions are called by the German antiquaries, at Sesto Calende 

 on the Lago Maggiore, on the borders of Switzerland and 

 Italy. There can be no doubt that this belongs to the same 

 class of pottery which is the subject of the present paper — it is 

 Germanic in form and character, and the identity of ornamenta- 

 tion will be more fully understood by comparing it with the 

 fragments found also at Sesto Calende, and represented in Figs. 

 24, 25, and 26 of the same plate in the Zurich Transac- 

 tions. Figs. 27 and 28 of that plate, found at the same 

 place, are also undoubtedly Germanic; one is a variety ot 

 the jug-shaped vessel found in the Alemannic, Frankish, and 

 Anglo-Saxon graves (see Roach Smith's Collectanea Antigua, 

 vol. ii., plate Hi.), and the other is an equally well-known form 

 of Anglo- Saxon, Frankish, and Germanic pottery. My exam- 

 ples, Figs. 2 and 3 (taken from the Zurich Transactions, band 

 xiv., heft 6, plate i., figs. 9 and 12), found, as I understand it, 

 on the Lago del Garda, on the borders of the Tyrol and Italy, 

 although the antiquaries of the Pfahlbauten set them down as 

 Celtic, present the unmistakable bosses of the Teutonic 

 pottery ; and if the reader will turn to Smith's Collectanea Anti- 

 qua, vol. ii., plate liii., he will find figures of the exact counter- 

 parts of them, even in their very rudeness of form, which were 

 dug up from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, excavated in 1844, at 

 Kingston, near Derby. My last example, Fig. 4 (taken from the 

 Zurich Transactions, band xiv., heft 6, plate viii., fig. 13), was 

 taken from a Pfahlbau near Allensbach on the Untersee, on the 

 borders of Switzerland and Germany, and appears also to be 

 ascribed to a very remote period ; it presents a form and orna- 

 ments recognized at once as belonging to the Alemannic, 

 Frankish, and Anglo-Saxon pottery. I think it right to add 



