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ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
15. Mortarium or Pelvis. 
Hard creamy-white paste. 
Roll-rim bulged boldly on the inside and down-bent almost vertically on 
the outside of the vessel. Below the rim are several ribs made in turning. The 
whole upper surface of the rim, as well as of the interior, is coated with trans¬ 
parent quartz particles well polished by wear. 
Height 2§ ins. Diams. of rim 9^ ins., base 3! ins. 
The date of this example, as indicated by the form of rim, is 
about a.d. 150—200. 
A mortarium similarly coated on the rim as well as the interior 
with stone particles, was recovered from one of the early pits, X. 
(a.d. 69—96 or a little later), at Newstead, Op. cit. p. 263, type 24. 
16. Unguent Pot, type 61, Lceschcke. 
Hard greyish-white pipe-clay. 
Diminutive pear-shaped body perched on a high slightly expanded foot 
and overtopped by a wide mouthpiece bordered round the outside edge by a 
V-shaped groove. 
Height 3^ ins. Diams. of rim i| in., body 2 ins., base 1 in. 
One of several examples of the commonest type of by-gifts in 
the cremation graves of the first three centuries a.d. 
With reference to an early example found at Haltern (b.c. ii — 
a.d. 9), Loeschcke states that the form remains the same or nearU 
so for centuries. Plaltern Y., p. 245, type 61. 
Another found at Neuss is ascribed by Leliner to the period 
a.d. 69—105, Bonn , Jahrb , 111/2, p. 336, plate XXVII., 16. Of 
about the same period is that recorded by Curie, Newstead , plate 
XLVI., type 27. 
Six such little clay pots with plain rims were found together 
with a coin of Faustina the elder, a.d. 138—141, in the fort No. 8, 
Zugmantel, on the German limes. ORL XXXII., p. 171, plate 
XVII., 23, 25. 
In the last two mentioned instances the body has a spiral groove 
from top to bottom produced in turning. 
C. R. Smith’s Cat. of London Antiquities , p. 19, No. 69. 
