ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
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Compared with those of the earlier ones of about equal height," 
their proportions as shown on Table VII. display a corresponding 
diminution, and equally serve to indicate their approximate date, 
during the four centuries of their survival. 
7. One-handled, long-necked Flagon. 
Hard, smooth, pipe-clay. 
Body globose above; somewhat conical below' the middle. Tw'o-ribbed 
handle joining the lower mouldings of the mouth-piece to the middle of the 
shoulder by a nearly quarter-round bend. Mouth funnel shaped with projecting 
lip and four bead mouldings below 7 . Beaded and ringed foot, with turned-off 
under base. 
Height ins., neck 3J ins., ; diams. of bulge 6|- ins., base 2f ins. 
Proportions, neck 37, body 66 : 25. Find-spot, Clifton, 1887, 
Allowing for the unusual length of neck the proportions are 
those of vessels of the end of the I. Century. (See Table VI.) 
The mouth-piece is of the so-called screw-shaped type (schrau- 
benartig), but has more resemblance to the lower part of a peg-top. 
It is commoner, with four to six rings or beads, in this county 
than on the Continent during the second half of the I. Century. 
The number and roundness of the mouldings decreases at a later 
date. Four-ringed examples are recorded by Ritterling, Hofheim , 
p. 87, Abb. 40, 7 (A.D. 40—60) and by Curie, Newstead, Fig. 33 
(A.D. 69—96). 
The great length of mouth-piece and neck masks the true pro¬ 
portions of this vessel. 
8 . Small One-handled Flagon. 
Pipe-clay paste polished. 
Body pear-shaped, curving upwards continuously to a funnel-shaped mouth 
without moulding. Handle flat two-ribbed, curving in a semi-circle to descend 
almost vertically to the steep shoulder. Base flat. 
Height ins., diams. of bulge 3! ins., base ig in. 
Proportions, 34 : 74 : 37. Find-spot, Lincoln Castle (New County History). 
Severe shape approximating to the late I. Century type, 
Koenen XI., 27. 
Cf. Poppelreuter and Hagen, Bonn. Jahrb., 114-5, p. 383, plate 
XXI., graves 6 c, 8 d. 
# As the wndth proportions vary inversely as the height, those of the smaller 
are naturally greater than those of the larger vessels. 
