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ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
Early Period, A.D. o— 69. 
The early flagons imported with the legions or shortly before or 
after their arrival, or made under their direct supervision, as at 
XantenT Neuss,t &c., are distinguishable by their severe and 
serviceable shapes. Their chief characteristic, stability, is secured 
by their inclination to width, the position of the widest part of the 
holder near to or below the middle of the height ; but mainly by 
the width of base and provision of a foot-ring. Their long nearly 
cylindrical necks expand slightly upwards to a funnel-shaped 
opening, to assist filling, and the mouth-piece is strongly moulded 
and separated from the neck by a wide oft-set. The junction of 
the neck to the globular, ovate, ovoid, or pear-shaped body is 
angular, and not curved or bevelled. The handle projects directly 
from the neck at some distance below the mouth-piece, and bend¬ 
ing at an angle in harmony with the line of the neck, descends 
vertically to the middle of the shoulder or is somewhat extended. 
On the outside it is divided into four ribs by three vertical grooves. 
As stated in the Table of Standard Proportions Nos. VI.—VII., 
the base proportion of the white flagons derived from Haltern, 
Trier, Cologne, Colchester, &c., during first half of I. Century, 
usually exceeds 40 per cent, of their height; the body proportion 
exceeds 80 per cent, or more than fths ; and the height of the 
body, as found by deducting the neck proportion in column 1 from 
100, is invariably less than its width throughout the I. Century. 
In Tables Nos. VI.—VII., relating to white flagons the percent¬ 
age proportion of the height of the neck to the total height is 
inserted in column 1 in lieu of that of the rim, which is too small 
to be of any chronological or typological significance. When 
no angle or other indication exists to show where the body leaves 
off and the neck begins a plumb-line measurement from the top 
edge of the lip to the shoulder is taken, as the nearest possible 
approximation to the height of neck, for determining the neck 
proportions in column 1. 
Flayian-Hadrianic Period, A.D. 69—138. 
Already at the close of the Flavian epoch there are marks of 
decadence,;!: and by the end of the I. Century the neck has grown 
* Loeschcke, Haltern V., p. 118 f. f Lehner, Novasinm, p. 419. 
X Poppelreuter, Bonn. Jahvb. 114/5 (1906), p. 350 ; Koenen, p. 70, XV., 15. 
