4 2 
ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
No. 23 has a slenderer pear-shaped body, but retains enough 
symmetry and evidence of good workmanship to be attributable to 
the late II. Century. 
No. 26 is coarse and of careless execution. It tapers rapidly 
upwards to a plain-ringed lip ; is caved in strongly below to an 
unduly small foot. These are attributes of III. Century. 
No. 25 is of still coarser clay, and drawn in to a merely cylin¬ 
drical neck and foot, like the bulbous beakers and goblets of the 
IV. Century. (See Table III.) 
They are all provided with a tubular spout, but are without 
handles. 
Clear evidence of their use as children’s feeding bottles is 
afforded by an example in the Colchester Museum, Joslin Collection, 
from grave group 124 (No. 1115), which included a number of 
toys, and a child’s bust in yellow-glazed St-. Remy ware of the 
early I. Century, and coins of Agrippa and Claudius, and there¬ 
fore attributable to about a.d. 50. It was of the same kind of 
yellow-glazed ware, and turbiniform—that is, with a wide conical 
bulge low down on the body, which appears to be a typical I. Cen¬ 
tury form, as a similar one from the first century necropolis of 
Roanne, France, is recorded by Dechelette, I., p. 45, Fig. 28. In 
the same museum are a large number of varied form, material and 
technique, including sigillata, yellow-glazed ware and glass. 
Plate XXIV. 
Rims of Mortaria. 
The rim is the only salient feature of the mortarium by which it 
is distinguishable into distinct types. Of these there are three 
early original ones, which become, in the course of development, 
expanded into at least seven, viz. :— 
1 a. The upright rim (type 59, Loeschcke), which appears at 
Flaltern (b.c. ii—a.d. 9), and is the prevailing one in Germany 
during the Augustan period, but occurs in Britain principally in 
the revived sigillata, form 45, Dragendorff, with lion or bat-faced 
spout, of the II. and III. Centuries. 
ib. The upright collar (or wall-sided mortarium), a developed 
form, represented by No. 14, plate XIN., and in the Colchester 
Museum, where it is associated with the well known Colchester 
Vase, decorated round the side with gladiators and animals eu 
barbotine. It no doubt corresponds with the wall-sided mortaria 
