472 Notes on the Roman Antiquities in the Westbury 



them was a fine bronze coin of Constantine the Great, struck in 

 London. 1 



A vessel of thick heavy grey pottery of olive jar shape is 

 ornamented with incised bands and waved lines ; another 

 rather smaller jar with a narrower neck is of plain red pottery 

 (PI. VIII., Figs. 7 and 8). A curious little pot of dark coarse grey 

 ware was perhaps a child's toy (PI. V1IL, Fig. 9). 



A double handled vase of black ware is in shape a clumsy 

 imitation of a "krater" (PI. IV., Fig. 3). 



Two small vases in size and shape somewhat resembling coffee 

 cups without handles, are of a remarkably thin, fine red ware | 

 the sides are as thin as those of a good china cup, and the paste 

 is as smooth and fine as modern terra cotta. 



Fig. 12, PI. V., is part of a rim of a large vessel of fine 

 grey ware painted black. The rim is folded over like the turn 

 down of a hem, and is stabbed at irregular intervals by holes that 

 penetrate one thickness only of the fold. The object of this stab- 

 bing was apparently to allow the heated air to escape during 

 the process of firing from the thick folded-over rim. General 

 Pitt-Eivers found similarly stabbed rims at Rotherly. ("JExcava-- 

 tions," vol. II, p. 145, pi. CX., Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7). 



There are examples of red or grey ware that have been painted, 

 white, of grey ware painted black, and of cream or buff wan 

 painted brown or purple. In some cases a colourless size orj 

 varnish appears to have been used. Much of the pottery is very 

 micaceous. 2 



A set of about twenty loom weights were found in the excav-1 



ations, but unfortunately, they were exposed to the frost, and most | 



of them were shivered to pieces, and there are now only five in 



the collection. 3 Three of these are shown on PI. IX. Fig. 3 



is of red baked clay triangular in shape ; Fig. 4 is of hard 



1 Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxv., p. 36, note. 

 - Very little seems to have been attempted as yet in the way of classifica- 

 tion, either as to form or fabric, of the plain everyday household wares 

 made and used in Britain under Roman influence. Some such " Guide " 

 seems to be badly needed. 



3 Wilts Arch. Ma;/., vol. xxvii., p/293, note. 



