By Mr. and Mrs. B. H. ' Cunnington. 89 



A distinct variety of paste is black or very dark brown, and 

 mixed with a large proportion of pounded white flint, and this 

 when tooled gives the ware almost a speckled appearance. The 

 bowls are often tooled and polished from rim to shoulder, the rest 

 of the surface being left comparatively rough. Some of them have 

 a more or less pronounced cordon round the shoulder (PI, IV., 

 Fig. 11 ; PI. VIIL, Figs. 21—23). The vessels found with the bowls 

 are usually made of the same kind of paste as the bowls them- 

 selves ; they are : (a) open shallow dishes (PI. V1L, Fig. 3 ; PI. VIIL, 

 Figs. 28—30) ; (b) covers with hollow knobs (PL VII., Fig. 4) ; (c) 

 jars with recurved upright rims (PI. IV., Figs. 1, 2, 9) ; (d) vessels 

 with moulded foot rings and wide expanding bodies, decorated with 

 cordons or with lustrous tooled lines round their girth (PL VI., 

 Figs. 3 — 5); (e) cups or bowls with or without cordons (PL VII., 

 Figs. 1, 2). Associated with these in the lower strata of the ditches 

 were a few pieces of particularly interesting pottery of finer wares, 

 including red and black (terra nigra) Belgic ware, and some very 

 fine white and greyish wares ornamented with feathered zigzag 

 (PL V., Figs. 1—2) and with hatched patterns (PL V, Figs. 6—8 ; 

 PL VI., Fig. 1) (see description of plates). 1 



A large quantity of pottery of the " bead-rim" type was discovered 

 in 1908 near Oare, on the Eainscombe estate, Pewsey, in what is 

 believed to be an accumulation of rubbish from some dwelling site. 2 



The pottery from Oare and that of the second period at Casterley 

 are identical in character. The " bead-rim " bowls themselves from 

 the two sites have every characteristic in common, and the other 

 pottery, such as covers, shallow ditches, cups with cordons, etc , 



1 It has been remarked that with the large quantity of pottery of the 

 bead-rim type so few associated relics were found. But taken as a whole 

 the finds at Casterley were not numerous, and doubtless a certain number 

 of the surface finds really date from the earlier or bead-rim period, while 

 it is not possible to ascribe them to it definitely. With the exception of 

 the iron pin (PI. III., Fig. 16) ; the hammer head (PL VIIL, Fig. 1), a few 

 nondescript fragments of bronze and iron, some sling bullets, fragments of 

 loom weights, one or two spindle whorls and pottery disks, really nothing 

 was found in the lower strata of the ditches in definite association with 

 " bead-rims." 



2 Wilts Arch. Mag., xxxvi., 125. 



