ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
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Plate XXII. 
14. Beaker. 
15. Barrillet. 
16. Pedestailed Cup. 
17. Bell-mouthed Cup. 
18. Carinated Bowl. 
19. Porringer with Hat rim. 
20. Cheese-squeeze. 
Plate XXIII. 
21—22.—Triple-vases. 
23—26. Feeding-bottles. 
Plate XXIV. 
27—29. Mortaria and potters’ stamps thereon. 
Plate XVI. 
1 . Small ovoid, olla-shaped Cup, with flat everted rim, and 
slightly out-curved foot. 
White clay with traces of a darker colour-coating in the protected angles. 
Thickness about g T) in., height 2| ins., dia. of rim 2 ins., bulge 2f ins., 
base iJg- in. 
Width proportions, 86 : 117 : 43 ; margins, 50 : 56. 
This must, in Roman times, have been regarded as a chef d'oeuvre, 
too fragile to be put to everyday use, and appears analogous to 
the small china ornaments commonly sold as souvenirs at the 
present day. 
Two amphora stored in the temple of Erythrea propter tenuitatem 
are mentioned by Pliny, Nat. Hist. XXXV., 46. 
A fragment of a vase of equal thinness is in Mr. T. Arthur 
Acton’s collection of pottery from the excavations in progress at 
Holt (bovivm), 9 miles south of Chester. 
A vessel of like form and size, 2 mm. thick, in black polished 
tewa nigra , so smooth in finish as to resemble turned bronze, is 
illustrated by Kcenen, p. 72, IX., 14, and ascribed to the middle 
third of the I. Century. Another example of still greater tenuity, 
hardly exceeding that of an egg-shell, also in polished terra nigra , 
but of the form Koenen, IX., 13, having an acute-angled projecting 
side, is more fully described by Dechelette among those' derived 
from the I. Century Gallo-Roman necropolis of Roanne. Bulletin 
de la Diana, tome XIII, 1902, p. 46. He says : “the potter seemed 
desirous to rival nature in forming real egg-shells.” On the under 
base it bears the stamp of the potter OFMATE, whose stamp has 
also been found at Chester, Wilderspool and Neuss(A.D. 25-105.) 
