By Mrs. M. E. Cunnington. 63 



with sherds of pottery. The great majority of these are llomano- 

 British or Late Celtic in character, but occasionally there occur 

 fragments of coarse hand-made "Bronze Age" type, and of glazed 

 modern or mediaeval ware. By means of a little search handfuls 

 of such fragments may be gathered from the mole hills that are 

 numerous on the spot. 



The pottery found in the various sections in and about the 

 plateau enclosure includes numerous pieces of the various kinds of 

 pottery that are commonly found associated with lloman remains, 

 grey, black, red, cream, and Ijud', including several pieces of 

 mortaria. The better quality wares of the period were represented 

 I by a few fragments of New Forest, and of Castor ware with " slip " 

 decoration, and forty-two pieces of Samian ware. Among this 

 latter is a piece with a mending rivet-hole, a piece of a small bowl 

 •of first century form (Form 27). a base of a large bowl, with an 

 illegible maker's stamp, a base of a very small bowl with a 

 rosette stamped on the interior, a base of a small bowl chipped out 

 to form a roundel, and stamped with the maker's name SEAERIM.^ 

 (Fig. 6.) 



A good many of the pieces of the Samian ware are blackened and 

 •discoloured l)y fire. 



The following ol)jects were also found: — 



An iron key, 3^ in. long, lloman (Fig. 3). 



Pair of bronze tweezers, length 2\\\\., probably Eoman (Fig. 11). 



Three sarsen mullers, or pounding stones. 



Iron nails (Figs. 1-2). 



Five pieces of hones or Kliarpening stones. 



Fragments of s:nall glass vessel, unicli oxidised. Pruljably 



Itoman. 

 Several ])i(^ces of Roman incised tiles and circular bricks. 

 FragnitMit, of wall ilauli ' with oiio sidi^ ])()lishe(l. 



' There seem to have been several potters of this name, and there are 

 several entrii-s of it in the " ('<it<ilo(fue of Roman Potteri/'' ])ublislio(l ])y the 

 Britisii Museum, ImH 1 can tind no record of a staiu]) (]uite the same as this 

 •ono. Mr. Ia';.,'inald Smith tells me that ''of skvkki" is in the '' CorjmSy'' 

 And llial "o SKAEiu " occurs at Caervvent (with the letter v reversed as at 

 Knap.) 



