By Rev. E. H. Goddard. 



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Pottery. Mr. J. P. E. Falconer found in 1898, and still possesses, 

 a curious little female figure seated with a cloak wrapped round it, 

 and the head enveloped as in a hood. It is of hard fine red terra- 

 cotta, but whether of ancient or modern date has not as yet been 

 authoritatively decided. In consequence of the way in which the 

 site has been disturbed many times before, it was scarcely possible 

 to assert of any object found that from its position it must have 

 been of Eoman age. 



Of vessels of pottery a considerable number of fragments oc- 

 curred, though with one exception 1 nothing like a whole vessel of 

 any sort was found. 



(1) Of good red Samian ware we only found four small frag- 

 ments. These were all without ornament, two of them belong 

 to a small fiat saucer with upright edge, the others to a larger 

 and thicker bowl. Ten fragments were found by Mr. Falconer 

 in 1898, including one with the potter's name, reginvs. 



(2) Two fragments, of wide bowl-shaped vessels with a broad 

 overhanging flange, 2 of a coarse red on the surface, and grey 



1 The one exception was a curious vessel, of which some fragments were 

 found in 1898, and passed into the hands of Mr. Falconer, whilst others were 

 found in the recent excavations, all in made soil filled with all sorts of 

 rubbish, Eoman and Wedgewood fragments lying side by side, on or outside 

 the northern boundary wall. These fragments were of a buff-coloured ware 

 ornamented with scrolls, &c, in relief in the same coloured slip — the ornament 

 being analogous somewhat to that of some of the Castor ware from Durobrivae, 

 near Peterborough, and still more of certain pots from Cologne, of Roman 

 date, in the Guildhall Museum. When put together, however, they formed 

 a vessel in the shape of a somewhat globular fish, on a stand, with a ring 

 handle at the top, which was entirely closed over, a funnel-shaped opening 

 projecting on one side of the handle and a small straight spout on the other ; 

 — altogether, if it had been ancient, a very remarkable find. I happened, 

 however, to have a modern vessel, brought from the South of Spain, with 

 precisely the same spout and funnel-shaped mouth, with almost precisely 

 similar raised slip ornament, and of a very similar material and make, and 

 when the two were set side by side it was generally allowed that the Box 

 example was of practically the same ware and must also be of modern Spanish 

 make. Since then I have seen an example of this same ware of fish shape 

 like the Box pot. 



2 Gen. Pitt Rivers, Excavations, III., p. 144, gives a cut showing the way 

 in which he believes these flanged vessels were used, the flange being intended 

 for the purpose of supporting them on the frame of an iron tripod, possibly 

 over a charcoal fire. 



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