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worn than the other pottery, slipped in from the surface, and 

 became accidentally associated with it after the destruction of the 

 fireplace. Among this pottery were fragments of mortariums of 

 red and cream-coloured ware, deepish basins with flanged rims, 

 (PL IV., Fig. 7) ; jars of grey and black " Upchurch " ware with 

 lattice pattern, jugs with handles, New Forest ware, thin red pottery, 

 some with white coating, and Samian ware. Among other frag- 

 ments of Samian of unidentifiable forms (plain wares) was a piece 

 of a bowl of form 37 with transitional decoration in two zones or 

 friezes. Drageudorff, Dechelette, and indeed all workers, place 

 this style of ornamenting bowls of form 37 as earliest in the series 

 of bowls of this type. Dechelette ascribes them (in the case of 

 Lezoux wares) to the period A.D. 75 — 110, or thereabout. The date 

 of this fireplace may, therefore, probably come within this period. 



Very grateful acknowledgments are due to Mr. Percy Farrer, 

 of the R. E. Staff of H.M. War Department at Bulford, for : 

 surveying and measuring the excavations, and for plotting out the i 

 ditches, &c. Tins work was undertaken by him as a labour of love,] 

 often at considerable personal inconvenience, not only as regards: 

 the actual field work, for which he made many visits to Casterley,; 

 but also the tedious task of preparing the plans and sections. ! 



The sunken road at the western entrance was surveyed and I 

 planned by Mr. A. J. Ilandell, of Devizes. 



All the objects found during the excavations have been placed 

 in the Society's Museum, at Devizes, by permission of H.M. War 

 Department, in whose ownership the site now is. 



