102 Casterlcy Camp Excavations. 



lustrous sheen of the true Samian. The polished surface of the 

 black ware is said to have been produced by steaming in smoke and 

 polishing, not by a laid-on glaze as the later black Boman wares. 



These Belgic wares seem to represent a transition between the 

 native local wares and the later provincial Samian, and to be closely 

 allied in form and ornamentation to the pottery of the native La 

 Tene culture, but they betray foreign influence, and some of their 

 forms are actually Roman. They have been called " Belgic," be- 

 cause they were produced in Gallia Belgica ; their distribution 

 seems to have been very limited and they are rarely found in 

 Britain. The black and the characteristic red wares do not seem to 

 have been made after 60 A.U. (see Walters " Ancient Pottery " and 

 Dragendorf). Several pieces of these wares were found in the lower 

 strata of ditches Nos. 1, 2, 6, and 7. 



4 Fragment of red Belgic ware with plain polished surface. Found in 



ditch No. 1, 8ft. deep. 



5 Fragment of red Belgic ware with incised lines in groups of four, found 



in surface trenching. 



Part of a dish with low foot rim of red Belgic ware stamped with 

 the maker's name, was found in surface trenching over ditch No. 2. ; 

 the stamp unfortunately is illegible, but appears to read AI - - SSV. 

 6 — 7 — 8. Fragments of a cream coloured, rather soft ware, ornamented 

 with hatchings. It all seems to belong to vessels of one form, 

 ornamented with hatched patterns alternating with plain zones or 

 bands. The quality of this ware varied from a very fine thin white 

 ware not more than l/10th of an inch thick, with hatchings delicately 

 executed, to a coarser greyish ware, Jin. thick, not always perfectly 

 baked, with hatching roughly executed. A few fragments of fine 

 red pottery were similarly ornamented. These wares were found in 

 the lower strata of ditches Nos. 1, 2, 6, 7, and in the bottom of the 

 outer ditch at D— D. 

 9 Piece of a moulded rim of white ware ; found in ditch No. 1, 8ft. deep. 



10 — 11 Fragments of two bowls of Samian ware, Form 30; found 4— 5ft. 

 deep in ditch No. 1. 



12 Fragment of bowl of Samian ware, Form 29 ; found with Figs. 10—11. 



Plate VI. 



Part of a vessel of very fine ware, ornamented with " engine-turned " 

 or hatched pattern, alternating with plain polished zones or bands. 

 The ware is only 1/10 of an inch thick, very fine, and hard 

 baked, and rings with a sound like that of china. The outer surface 

 is a pale brown, having been apparently coated with some colouring 

 material, but the interior and the paste itself is a very pale grey. The i 

 plain zones are highly polished, and there are faint red lines running 

 round the upper part of the vessel. The, pattern seems to have been 



