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ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
g. Small One-handled Flagon. 
Hard, smooth pale paste. 
Body oblate spheroidal, curving upwards to a short neck and plain lip, and 
downwards to a well caved-in slightly everted foot and cut-off base. Two-ribbed 
strongly curved handle. Lip slightly down-bent to form a spout at right angles 
to the handle. 
Height 4 A3- ins., neck i-^l in. ; diams. of bulge 3! ins., base 1^- in. 
Proportions, 25 : 83 : 34. 
This widely distributed type begins to come into prominence in 
the early Christian graves, when inhumation begins to supersede 
incineration, about the middle of the III. Century, and continues 
sometimes to appear in the Frankish and Saxon graves. Kcenen, 
p. 98, XV., 20 ; Behn, Rdmische Kevamik , Nos. 1745-6, form 41. 
In the extensive grave-field at Cologne, illustrated and described 
by Poppelreuter and Hagen [Bonn. Jahrb ., 114-5, p. 418, plate 
XXV., grave 56 b, from which so many citations have been made), 
the earliest example found was accompanied by a coin of Postumus 
(A.D. 258—267). Flagons of the same type appeared in most of 
the later graves. 
The second part of the following Table of Standard Proportions, 
VII., contains particulars of these smaller flagons compiled to 
assist in identifying other examples found in this country and in 
determining their date. 
