Collection at the Museum, Devizes. 469 



Some of the vessels bear interesting evidence of the skill with 

 which they were repaired by rivetting. The rivet holes are neatly 

 bored, and in some cases the leaden rivets are still in place. 



There are in the Westbury Collection, besides the red glazed 

 Gaulish pottery, a few pieces of other wares that are probably of 

 foreign manufacture, and among these there is a very fine grey 

 ware that is perhaps of Belgic origin. A handsome circular dish 

 of this grey ware, is beautifully turned and polished ; the centre is 

 raised into a slight boss surrounded by two incised concentric 

 circles enclosing a band of engine turned ornament. The 

 dish is llin. in diameter and lfin. deep. (Fig. 1, PI. X.) Two 

 plates or dishes, of a similar grey ware, have a peculiar saucer-like 

 arrangement, apparently let into the centre of the dish before 

 baking. The bottom of the saucer is slightly below that of the 

 bottom of the dish, but the sides stand up and form a separate 

 receptacle within the dish (Pig. 2, PI. X ). A dish of fine 

 .red ware also has this curious arrangement. A similar central 

 inner receptacle may be seen on some plates of Greek pottery in 

 the British Museum, but no other dishes like these in the Westbury 

 Collection seem to be recorded with Eoman remains in Britain. 1 



There are in the collection two perfect mortaria, and fragments 

 of several others ; and these may, or may not be, of foreign make. 

 It is known that mortaria were made and exported from the 

 neighbourhood of Lyons, but some doubtless were made locally. 

 The mortarium illustrated (Fig. 6, PI. VI.) is of red ware that has 

 been painted white, both inside and out. A fragment of rim also 

 of red ware painted white, is stamped twice over with the letters 

 MIO. 



The majority of the pottery is, however, of British manufacture, 



and many of the pieces are strongly reminiscent of Late-Celtic 



ware. (PI. VII., Figs. 1 to 6). 



1 These Greek plates are painted with figures of fish and other marine 

 creatures. It is suggested that they were used to serve fish on, and that 

 : the circular depression in the centre was to hold any liquor that might drain 

 | off. See British Museum Guide to Greek and Roman Life, p. 115. This 

 j could not have been the object of the receptacle in the Westbury plates, as 

 ! the sides of the receptacle stand up above the bottom of the plate. It might, 

 however, very conveniently have held a sauce or relish of some kind. 





