about Eleven broad at the narrower End, and nigflr 
Twelve and an half at the broader ; this was the loweft 
pare 5 for the Feet and the reft were proportionably 
broader till it came to the Shoulders ; 'tis an Inch thick 
befides the LedgeSjWhich are One broad and Two thick, 
and extend from the bottoin of either fide to within 
Three Inches of the top, where 'cis wholly flat, and 
fomewhat thinner for the next to lye upon it, which fe- 
vera! Parts were thus joyn'd together by fome Pin, I 
prefumc j for at the end of each Tile is a Hole that wou'd 
recei\^e a common Slate-Pin, thefe Edges are wrought a 
little hollow, to receive the Sides, I fuppofe, and at the 
Feet are Twa contrary Notches to faikn the End- piece, 
this Bottom I foouid conclude to have confided ftriftly 
of Eight fuch Parts, from a like Character 8 impreft up- 
on the C!ay by the SandapHarim's Finger before its Ba- 
kingt but fhat I (bmewhat doubt whether Numeral Fi- 
gures be of that Antiquity in rhefe European Parts, tho' I 
fee no reafon to conclude that b^caufe the Romans ufed 
the Numeral Letters upon their more durable Monu- 
ments, that they were utterly Strangers to thefe Figures, 
which (notwithflanding the common Opinion ol their 
Novelty here) the learned Dr. Pf^/Zw thinks as old at 
leaft, as the Times of Hermannus Contraiius^ An. Dom. 
1050. and produces an unexceptionable Teftimony of 
their Ufe here, in England Jn. 1135. {Philofoph. TranfaB. 
Numb. 1)4.) I got alfo fome Scars of broken Urns, 
dug up in Mr. Glless Garden, which are of the fineft 
blew Clay I have feen, with which was found a Roman 
Shuttky about Three Inches and an half long, but not 
one broad in the very middle, the hollow for the Lic'mm 
being but one fourth of an Inch in the broadeft Place, 
lliews that it was eiiher for Silk or very fine Linnen, per- 
haps their Ashefiinum or Incombuftibie Winding-Sheets. 
I have alio lately procur'd a Roman Pottle from Ald^ 
trough ^ 
