Collection at the Museum, Devizes. 471 



Fig. 9, PI. VI., represents a curious caricature of a woman's "head 

 modelled in light grey pottery." The hair is shown as twisted and 

 coiled round the head ; the ears are little coils of clay, the eyes two 

 round dabs ; the face is outlined by little bands of clay across the 

 forehead and down each cheek ; the nose and chin are beak-like ; 

 and the whole face is grotesque. 



Of Castor ware with slip decoration there is none in the col- 

 lection, but New Forest ware is represented by a vase with indented 

 sides, painted a brownish purple in colour (PL VI., Fig. 10). 

 Fragments of ampullae of ■ soft cream-coloured paste painted a 

 purplish brown, and a small vase (imperfect) of very thin buff 

 ware painted brown inside and out, and with two bands of "engine 

 turned " ornament, may have come from the same locality. 



There are in the collection several good examples of the so-called 

 I Upchurch " ware, of the bulbous jar or " olla " type (PL VIII., 

 Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6). The type is a common one, and has 

 been found in great numbers at Colchester and elsewhere. Some 

 of this pottery seems to have been made near Upchurch, in Kent, 

 but it is doubtful if it was all made at one centre, and the term 

 "Upchurch" must therefore be considered rather one of convenience 

 than of scientific accuracy. 1 



The Westbury vessels of this type are of well-made grey ware, 

 sometimes stained with a black paint or varnish on the outside, 



and sometimes tooled and polished ; most of them are decorated 



with zones of tooled lines in "lattice" or "cross line" pattern, the 

 ground of the ornamented zone being left rough in contrast to the 



tooled surface of the rest of the vessel. 



Two jars of this description are provided with handles (PL VIII., 



Fig. 4). 

 Upchurch jars were often utilised as cinerary urns, and Fig. 



2, PL VIII. was found containing burnt bones with the shallow 

 I; vessel of plain grey ware resting on top of them as shown in the 



illustration. The bones were those of a young person, and among 



1 Catalogue of Soman Pottery in the British Museum, p. li. 

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