By Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Cunnington. 91 



A few " recurved " rims were found below, but in comparison 

 with " bead-rims " they were scarce ; above, the proportion is re- 

 versed, and it is the " bead-rims " that have become scarce. 



The following types of vessels and wares, found in the upper 

 strata of the ditches, were entirely absent from the lower strata: 

 deepish bowls of grey or black ware with flanged rims (PI. VIII., 

 Figs. 1—15 ; PI. IV., Pig. 7) ; vessels of the so-called " Upchurch 

 ollse" type with zones of lattice pattern ; New Forest, Castor, and 

 Samian ware, mortaria, and the thin, rather soft red ware, some- 

 times coated white, that is common in the later period. 



The lowest find of Samian ware was 4 — 5ft. deep in ditch No. 1, 

 consisting of fragments of two bowls of form 30 and one of form 

 29. 



The finds of this ware consisted generally of only small frag- 

 ments, but the following forms have been recognised : forms 25, 

 27, 33 or 44, 35,36, 79, 80, 81; and of decorated bowls forms 

 29, 30, and 37. 



Three makers' stamps were found, namely : — BVKDOF, for Burdo 

 f (ecit) on the base of a small bowl (form 33 ?) found on the surface 

 of ditch No. 2 ; PECVARF., for Peculiars f(ecit), on a small base 

 from the hut-site at la ; and DECMI MA, for Decimus Ma(nus), 

 from the burnt stratum at the entrance to the rectilinear enclosure. 1 



The accumulation of pottery found in the T-shaped fireplace, or 

 hypocaust, and in its adjoining praefurnium,isof peculiar interest 

 because it was probably collected within a few years at most, and 

 it is instructive as to the various kinds in use at the same time. 



There were here altogether two hundred and sixty rim 

 pieces of various vessels, including, it is remarkable, only one 

 small worn fragment of a "bead-rim" bowl. Evidently "bead- 

 rim" bowls were not used by the people to whom this fireplace 

 belonged ; it is probable that even this one piece, as it was more 



1 These three names are probably those of manufacturers at Lezoux in the 

 second century. The two former names are known to occur on bowls of 

 form 33, and the latter on bowls of the same form from Pudding Pan Kock, 

 the site (it is believed) of the wreck of a boat load of these wares somewhere 

 in the second century A.D. (Pro. Soc. Ant., xxi., 268 ; xxii., 395). 



