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and for containing food. Of the larger sizes, as might be expected, 

 no perfect examples have been fonnd. There are also shallow bowls 

 for heating liquids, smaller pots perhaps for unguents, and saucers 

 identical in shape with those now used for placing under flower-pots. 

 These last, however, were employed as covers. There is one in the 

 Winchester Museuni, which was found in Waterlane in that city, 

 covering an urn containing ashes, and by overlapping the top of 

 it, effectually preserving its contents from injury. Both are figured 

 in vol. vi. of the " Archaeological Journal/'' p. 184. Here is a muti- 

 lated but interesting example, the only one I have met with, of a 

 saucer-shaped cullender or strainer, the bottom and rim perforated 

 with holes and scored with lines, to facilitate the escape of the 

 liquid. Only one bottle-shaped vessel was found uninjured ; it is 

 very strong and heavy, though not of large size, and bears marks 

 of having been placed upon the fire. The large quantity of necks, 

 handles, and rims of store jars, jugs, and bottles, attest the use 

 which the Romans made of all these articles. None of these objects 

 have any ornament of any kind upon them. The bluish-black 

 colour, not amounting to a glaze, still remaining upon some of them 

 arises, I believe, from their having been baked in the smoke of 

 vegetable substances. 



Of the rough-looking but brittle sand-coloured ware only a few, 

 and those fragmentary specimens were found. The spout and 

 handle of a large jug, probably a wine jar, a small two-handled 

 amphora-shaped poculum, and two portions of lamps, perforated for 

 their wicks, and discoloured by burning, are the best of these. 



A dull red clay, and a whitish clay coated with red, both very 

 inferior to Samian in tint and lustre, seem to have been sparingly 

 employed for pocula, jugs, and paterae, of which last but scanty 

 remains and no uninjured specimens were discovered. Judging" 

 from the fragments of the dishes, they must have been small in size, 

 and few in number. There were some much worn pieces of a 

 " mortarium,^ with its lining of sharp stones, for the abrasion of 

 vegetables or grain. Of these two diminutive objects, both in fair 

 preservation, one may have been, I think, the " salinum/' or salt 

 cellar, the other the " acetabulum," or vinegar bowl of the Roman 



