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ON SOME 



BEONZE AGE POTTERY OF "FOOD VESSEL" TYPE. 



By A. D. Passmore. 



Although the " Food Vessel " proper of northern type is unknown 

 from Wiltshire, still it may be reasonably claimed that the vessels 

 described below which have been found. in this county are of that 

 class, though they are of a somewhat different character in detail 

 from the Yorkshire specimens. They cannot be placed with the 

 other well-known forms of barrow pottery and have every ap- 

 pearance of being closely related to the " Food Vessel " family, one 

 of them being but a variety of that figured by Greenwell, 1 



Some years ago (1894) labourers digging a shallow trench through 

 the West Woods, Overton, found at a depth of 2ft. 6in. the curious 

 vessel illustrated in Fig. I. The ground at the spot was level, and 

 no other relics of antiquity were noticed- 2 



Fig. I. Vessel from the West Woods, Overton. 



It is a handmade vessel of coarse manufacture, the paste of a 

 red-brown colour interspersed witli numerous fragments of flint, 

 some of which are a quarter of an inch in diameter. Apparently 



1 British Barrows, Fig. 69, p. 85. 

 2 No one but the labourers themselves saw the excavations, so there may 

 possibly have been an interment. 



