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black paint or varnish, which is burnt into the earthenware, 

 and still has a beautiful polish. They are often covered 

 outside with an excellent red varnish, also burnt in. 



7. One plate, or circular dish, of a different type, proba- 

 bly intended for use by several people when eating, has a 

 broad upright rim 1*3 inches high, with a nearly flat top. 

 This plate measured 19*2 inches across the inside. It con- 

 sists of thick, but excell ently made, earthenware, with a 

 bright red varnish on both sides . It is about '42 inch thick 

 at the side, and the bottom has a slight upward curve 

 towards the edges. 



8. A series of large, nearly flat, plates or circular dishes, 

 intermediate in character and shape between the two last, 

 with broad-topped rims sloping slightly outwards, and 

 averaging *97 inch in height. They are of rougher make 

 than the others, and consist of very strong, well-burnt, red, 

 unvarnished earthenware. Several specimens average 14*78 

 inches in internal diameter, varying from 13*7 to 16*7 inches, 

 and are about *2 inch thick. 



9. Numerous plate-covers, which had rims or flanges 

 projecting downwards, from *54 to 1*15 with a mean of '82 

 inch deep, to fit outside the rims of the plates. These 

 were nearly flat on the top, being slightly elevated towards 

 the middle in a gradual curve. They vary in size like the 

 plates, the inside diameters of several measured being from 

 6*5 to 13*2 inches, with a mean of 9-23 inches. These covers 

 are plain and unvarnished on both sides, but are made of 

 good material. 



10. Numerous circular trays or dishes of rather thick 

 and not very fine earthenware. The fragments are very 

 small, and it is difficult to ascertain the depths of the trays, 

 but they appear to have varied from half an inch to 3J 

 inches. Their external diameter was from 7 to 14*75 inches, 

 with a mean, among those measured, of 12*2. The average 

 thickness is *25 inch. 



11. Fragments of a few very large, nearly flat, trays of 

 a thick coarse earthenware. Two measured 28*8 inches and 

 32*6 inches in total diameter, and were *36 inch and *50 inch 

 thick respectively. These were from the excavation near 

 the low-level sluice, but similar fragments have been found 

 in the high-level channel cutting, among the houses. 



