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changes through which the industry passed. The custom of the 

 Gaulish manufacturers of stamping with their names a certain 

 number of their wares, has aided materially in establishing the 

 chronology, and has in many cases led to the identification of the 

 actual site of the workshops of particular makers. 



An important series of discoveries on a British site has also 

 given considerable additional evidence as to individual potters who 

 were contemporary with each other, and as to the types of vessels 

 that they were making at an approximately fixed date. This is the 

 recovery from time to time of a large quantity of Gaulish ware 

 from Pudding Pan Rock, in Heme Bay, Kent, from what 

 is believed to have been the scene of the wreck of a boatload of 

 this pottery on its way from Gaul to Britain somewhere between 

 the years 160—180 A.D. 1 



It is interesting to find, therefore, that of the ten form types 

 represented in the Westbury Collection, seven occur also in the 

 Pudding Pan Eock pottery, namely forms 31, 33, 35, 36, 38, 44, 

 and 79. 2 



Of the three remaining types, one (form 27) is typical of the first 

 century, 3 and is represented in the collection by one example only. 

 Another (form 30), though it is believed to have appeared as early 

 as dr. A.D. 50, lasted well into the second century, and is repre- 

 sented also by only one example in the collection. The remaining 

 type (form 37) was used for decorated bowls only, an-d was the 

 most popular of any of the ornamented vessels. The form is 

 typical of the second century, and it seems to have entirely super- 

 seded all other forms of decorated bowls. 4 Form 31 is by far the 

 commonest in the collection, and is represented by the remains of 

 probably quite two dozen specimens. Of form 44 there are four 

 or five examples ; of forms 35 and 36 two or three each ; of forms 



1 See papers by Mr. Reginald Smith in the Pro. Soc. Ant., 2nd Series, 

 Vol. xxi., No. 11, p. 268, and Vol. xxii., No. 11, p. 395. 



- The form types, unless otherwise stated, are those given in the British 

 Museum Catalogue of Roman Pottery, adapted from those of Dragendorff 

 and Dechelette. 



3 Catalogue of Roman Pottery in the British Museum, p. xxv. 



4 Les Vases Ceramiques Ornes de la Gaule Somaine, p. 187. 



