582 Liddington Castle {Camp). 



and XIII. dynasties, 1 before 2000 B.C. It is found on Neolithic 

 sites in Malta, 2 and although not common in this country is seen 

 on the much restored cup and cover found in a round barrow at 

 Aldbourne, Wilts, 3 with a cremated interment, near which was a 

 second cup similarly ornamented but having the punctured dots 

 filled in by a white powder, exactly as in the Egyptian pottery 

 mentioned above. 4 With this interment was a lignite pendant, 

 which is obviously a copy of the well-known Egyptian faience 

 rings (not "porcelain," as so often stated). Beckhampton, Wilts, 

 and Camerton, Somerset, have also supplied Bronze Age examples 

 of this peculiar pattern, which occurs on " Incense Cups " of ex- j 

 panded shape which seem to be confined to the SW. of England, 5 

 and might be claimed as the work of one potter. We have seen 

 in the table above that straight line ornamentation predominates 

 over that with curves in the proportion of 9 to 1, and also the 

 agreement in character with certain ornamented " Incense Cups." 

 It seems, therefore, not unreasonable to suggest that the whole find 

 dates from the beginning of the Early Iron or Late Celtic Age, and 

 to consider the ring-headed pin as an accidental intrusion of some- 

 what later date, and the bronze studded iron vessel as a rare im- 

 portation from the Continent. However, it may be said that 

 nothing quite like this pottery has yet been found, and beyond 

 pointing out its characteristics and affinities it is as well to refrain 

 from ascribing it to any definite period until future discoveries 

 point out its true significance. 6 



'Griffith. Tell-el-Yahudiyeh, 56. XIX. 



2 Tagliof erro. Hal Saflieni. 



3 Archceologia, LIL, 51. 



4 Several pieces of the pottery from Liddington show traces of the white 



filling, as also do some fragments of beakers from the W. Kennett Long 



Barrow. 



5 Thumam. 

 6 Mr. Passmore allows me to call attention to the similarity of some of 

 the patterns here illustrated to those on the pottery from the Late Celtic 

 settlement at All Cannings Cross Farm, illustrated by Mrs. Cunnington 

 (W.A.M., xxxvii., 526), especially the impressed circles and the dots and 

 scored lines. Sfe Plate III., fig. 3, and Plate IV., fig. 4, of the All Cannings 

 pottery. Fig. 20 (Liddington), with the trellis lines, has a late appearance. 

 — E. H. Goddard. 



