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Notes. 



They consist of one of Claudius Gothicus, two of Constantine the Great, 

 one of Theodora (?) and five of worn types of Valentinian and Gratian. 

 They date from about A.D. 270 to 390, 



E. H. Goddard. 



Roman Interment and Pottery at Deptford, Wylye. 



In July, 1898, two men named Smith, of Lavington, brought to the 

 Museum a Eoman vessel which they had found on the farm occupied by 

 Mr. E. J. Lush, at Deptford, in Wylye parish, earlier in the year. Their 

 story was that whilst digging clay for the repair of a pond they came 

 upon the vessel here illustrated " standing in a saucer-shaped thing," 



Roman Vessel found at Deptford, Wylye. 



which was broken into bits. These bits they said they threw away, and 

 a skeleton which they found near the vessel they buried again. Mr. 

 Lush, the occupier of the farm knew nothing of this find, but as there 

 seemed no reason to doubt the men's word the vessel was purchased for 

 our Museum. Among the Roman pottery already there there is nothing 

 quite like it. It is an elegant vase or bottle-shaped vessel of good hard 

 red ware, with a broad band of dark slate-colour round the body, orna- 

 mented alternately with upright lines and two circles, in very slightly 

 raised white slip or colour, painted on quickly and carelessly. On the 

 under part of the body are three rows of simple indented " engine-turned " 

 ornament, one row of which forms the upper edge of the slate-coloured band. 

 It measures 7in. in height and lfin. across the base, its greatest diameter 

 being about 5in. The ware is not improbably of New Forest manufacture. 



E. H. GODDAKD. 



