470 Notes on the Roman Antiquities in the Westhury 



Some are, indeed, practically identical with pottery of that 

 period at Colchester, and in the British Museum. 



Figs. 1, 3, 4, and 5 are of fine grey ware. Fig. 2 is of polished 

 black ware. Fig. 1 has a hole bored through the base, and it and 

 Fig. 5 have been painted, or coated with some black substance. 

 Fig. 6 is of fine black ware with three roughly scribbled lines of 

 meander pattern round the body. 



There are several fine examples of pitchers or jugs ; Fig. 1, PI. IV., 

 is of very fine black polished ware, ornamented with bands of 

 waved lines. Another even handsomer jug is also of very finely 

 polished black ware, ornamented with radiating lines at the base 

 of the neck, and a "scribble" pattern below. PI. VII., Fig. 7. 

 Fig. 8, PI. VII., is of light grey ware with two rows of roughly- 

 drawn zigzag, or meander, pattern round the neck and shoulders ; 

 and Fig. 9, PI. VII. is of heavy dark pottery, rather clumsily 

 modelled. 



Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, PI. VI., are bowls, of types not uncommon in 

 Eomano-British pottery ; Figs. 2 and 4 are of grey ware that lias 

 been painted, or coated with some black substance, and have faintly 

 tooled lines in a " scribble " pattern on the under sides. Tbe bowl 

 — Fig. 5 — has a straight rim, and is of brownish ware with faintly 

 tooled " cross line " ornament round the body. 



The cover with the hollow knob (Fig. 6, PI. VI.) is one of six 

 similar covers in the collection, four of grey, and two of red ware. 1 

 The cup of light grey ware, plain but for two furrows below the 

 rim, is of a rather uncommon type (Fig. 7, PI. VI.) ; there are 

 pieces of four other cups, similar in shape, but rather smaller, one 

 being ornamented with " cross line " or " lattice " pattern. Fig. 8, 

 PI. VI. is another cup-like vessel of grey ware. 



1 Similar covers were found in the Late-Celtic rubbish heap at Oare {Wilts 

 Arch. Mag., vol. xxxvi., p. 125) and with Late-Celtic pottery at Colchester, ! 

 Hitchin, and elsewhere. An urn with a very similar cover is illustrated in j 

 the British Museum Guide to the Early Iron Age, p. 25, fig. 21, from | 

 Hallais in the lower Seine district- Among the mass of pottery that 

 General Pitt- Rivers found in his excavations there seems to have been onlyj 

 one knobbed cover at all like these, although a number of bowls that jj 

 apparently were intended to have covers were found, and it was suggested | 

 that wooden covers might have been used (vol. ii., p. 168). 



