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and also has something of the lustre on the surface. A very 

 small bit of the same ware has a scale or basket-work or- 

 nament on it. A fragment very like this is in the Silchester 

 collection at Beading. 



(6) A few pieces of apparently somewhat globular bowls or jars 

 with out-turned rims, of grey-brown ware, with small specks 

 of mica on the surface. 



(7) Neck and part of body of a globular-shaped jug with 

 handle, of hard grey ware, a band of ornament composed of 

 curls lightly marked on the wet clay with a blunt instrument 

 running round the upper part of the body. 



(8) A number of rims of basin- or bowl-shaped vessels with 

 straight sides ; they have projecting rims, above which the 

 edge rises up. Gen. Pitt Eivers gives a long series of sections 

 of such vessels, and a cut of a perfect one (p. 169), from the 

 Romano-British villages of Rotherley and Woodcuts, in Vol. II. 

 Plate CXVL, of his Excavations. Some of the rims suggest 

 that a cover fitted over them, or perhaps the overlapping rims 

 were for the same purpose as the broader flanges of No. 2. 

 They are of brownish black thick ware and some of them still 

 retain under the rims the black and soot which collected on 

 them when used for cooking. 



A number of fragments also occurred of the rims and bottoms 

 of flat upright-edged saucers of this same brown or black ware, 

 ornamented with crossed lines and scrolls marked on the wet 

 clay with a blunt instrument. Gen. Pitt Rivers gives an 

 example from Woodcuts in Excavations, Vol. I., Plate XXXIV., 

 fig. 1, where he suggests that these saucers may perhaps have 

 been used as lids for the basin-shaped vessels with rims. A 

 good deal of this black ware, especially in the case of the 

 saucers, has a kind of polish on the surface, as if it had been 

 tooled over. 



Of the same ware, again, are a number of fragments of 

 pots, vases, or jars, all of much the same shape 1 — a small 



1 A precisely similar pot, from Woodyates, is figured in Gen. Pitt Eivers' 

 Excavations, Vol. I., Plate XXXIL, fig. 5. 



