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bottom swelling out into a larger body which has round it a 

 band of simple crossed lines slightly marked on the wet clay 

 narrowing somewhat to the wide mouth, which has a wide 

 everted rim, These vessels, also, are some of them blackened 

 with soot. 



More than three-quarters of all the pottery found was of 

 this common black ware, and belonged to vessels of the three 

 above-named shapes. 



(9) One fragment of a thin ware, red in substance, but black 

 on the surface, containing minute grains of mica throughout 

 its substance, apparently part of a small bowl. 



(9a) Another fragment of a still smaller and thinner bowl also 

 has specks of mica. It is black on the surface and grey-brown 

 in the substance. 



(10) . A very hard ware, grey in the substance and reddish- 

 yellow on the surface, furnished several fragments. It seems 

 to be of a w T are similar to fragments found in a Bomano-British 

 dwelling-pit at Gorton, in Hilmarton, and also by Gen. Pitt 

 Eivers in the Eushmore villages. 



(11) A few pieces of coarse yellow and green glazed ware were 

 doubtless mediaeval. 



Bones. Hardly any bones were found, except the two leg bones 

 of a cock with very large spurs, which were found amongst the 

 floor debris, and are pretty certainly of Eoman age. 



Metal Objects. Absolutely the only objects in metal discovered 

 were : — 



(A) The corroded and decomposed fragments of a pewter or 

 white metal jug found in Hypocaust X. of which there is just 

 enough to show that it had a small long neck, and a handle, 

 6 Mn. in length, and a body tapering to a small base, 3 Jin. in 

 diameter. A similar vessel, also in a fragmentary condition, is 

 in Beading Museum, from Silchester ; and there also examples 

 in other museums. 



(B) Also in this hypocaust X, amongst the stone pillars was 



