ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
3 1 
It probably died out, or lost its distinct character about the end 
of the I. Century. 
As its form indicates, it was chiefly used on beakers of bulgy 
form (swill pots) for holding a large allowance of weak liquor, 
raised ribs or crescents being placed on their sides to give a hold 
for the fingers of one hand. 
4. — Oblique rim. This is small, straight, angularly outbent, and 
obliquely inclined, thickening upwards or in the middle, with 
a triangular, long oval, or semi-oval section. It appears in the 
Augustan period at Haltern, on vessels included among the 
Belgic types 84, 85, 86, 87, by Lceschcke, Haltern V., pp. 280—8, 
Abb. 44, 1—7. 
Vessels of this type are recorded by—Ritterling, Hofheim , VI., 
20, IX., 1, (a.d. 40—50); Ritterling, Wiesbaden , p. 117, XII., 21, 
24, (a.d. 83 —122); Riese, Hedd. Mitteil , IV., p. 14, plate I., 16, 17, 
18, 19, from the Praunheim graves, found with coins of Domitian, 
Trajan, and Hadrian, (a.d. 90—150); Curie, Newstead, p. 248, 
plate XLVTI., type 36, from pre-Hadrianic deposits (a.d. 69—96). 
In the Rhine and Maine districts it appears before a.d. 100, and 
in Britain apparently somewhat earlier. The vessels are often 
decorated with bars, ribs, ridges, leaves, studs, rings, 8 tc.,en barbotine, 
and various linear patterns round the bod)’, to give a finger-hold. 
The form of lip, surface-coating or polishing, raised ornaments 
and dimensions, all indicate that they were beakers (drinking 
mugs), the body being usually ovoid, pear, tub, cask or winepipe 
shaped. 
The absence of all these indications is observable in rare cases 
when oblique rims are used on large ollae, such as cooking-pots, 
cinerary urns, &c. Such rims are to be met with occasionally on 
Upchurch ollae (see also plate XXI., 13), and seem to indicate a 
Late Celtic or La Tene origin. 
5. —Horizontal or level rims. 
(a). Level lip , ending an ogee curve on neck and shoulder—a 
pair of shallow girth-grooves often marking the change from con¬ 
cave to convex on the latter, and two others appearing on the 
surface of the rim. The flattening of the lip appears in the middle 
of the I. and dies out about the end of the II. Century, as indicated 
by the records of its occurrence. (See plate XXI., 9). 
Ritterling, Hofheim , p. 94, Abb. 50, Nos. 7, 8, 20 (the rim slightly 
undercut and well moulded); Wiesbaden, XV., 12, 21, 26 (a.d. 83 — 
121) ; Wolff, Hedd, Mitteil , IV., XII., 51, 42 (a.d. 50—117); 
