534 A Late Celtic Inhabited Site at All Cannings Cross Farm. 



Tliey are often made of a grey ware that has been coated both 

 inside and out, or only on the outside, with a bright red pigment^; 

 others are of black ware with highly-polished surfaces ; and a few 

 are the natural colour of the baked clay. They are in shape nearly 

 round-bottomed, with only a slight flattening, or dimpling in of 

 the base, such as might have resulted if the bowls had been allowed 

 to rest on the rounded bottom before the clay was quite hard. The 

 upper part above the shoulder is, with few exceptions, ornamented 

 with ribs or cordons, or with deeply-scored or grooved lines ; in no 

 case is the ribbing felt on the inside of the bowl. The depth of 

 the rim varies considerably and gives some variety to the shape 

 of the bowls, which is otherwise very uniform. 



Some forty fragments of pottery with distinctive ornament upon 

 them were also found ; some of these are very small, and none are 

 large enough to determine the shape of the vessel to which they 

 belonged. 



The ornament is all either stamped or incised, some of it so 

 deeply that it must have made the vessel extra fragile. In several 

 cases the incised or stamped pattern has been emphasised by a 

 filling of a white paste or slip (Plate V., 4). 



A pedestalled base of grey ware, and what appears to be the 

 bowl of a ladle made of black ware are among the finds. 



Several bases were found that had been perforated as strainers 

 or colanders (Plate IV., 2). Some of the vessels had holes 

 bored through the sides, and it is suggested that these may have 

 been used as beehives. In Kashmir, and other parts of India^ 

 earthenware vessels with similar holes bored through the sides are 

 now actually used as such. The vessels are inserted from the in- 

 side of the huts into the walls made of mud or sun-dried mud 

 bricks, with only the holes made in the vessels for the bees to pass 

 in and out being visible from the outside of the hut. In other 

 districts hives made of wood are similarly placed in the walls of 

 the huts; these are provided with wooden shutters, and when the 

 comb is to be taken from the hives these are opened a little way 



^ See description of Plate II., 2, below. 



