INTRODUCTION. 
The well-known collection of pottery of the Roman period, 
found principally at York, in the Museum of the Yorkshire 
Philosophical Society, includes varied specimens of Gaulish and 
German imported terra sigillala and Romano-British or native 
wares of great interest and importance to archaeologists. To 
increase its usefulness to the latter by the arrangement and illus¬ 
tration of its treasures, this general description has been prepared 
by permission of the Council and with the co-operation of Messrs. 
Oxley Grabham, M.A., curator, and William Watson, assistant- 
curator. The following recent writers upon the subject, are those 
upon whose authority the classification and dating of the specimens 
has been based :— 
List of Authorities referred to and Abbreviations used in the following 
descriptive list. 
Dechelette, I. and II.—“ Les vases ceramiques ornes de la Gaule 
Romaine,” tomes I. and II., 1904. 
Wallers.—“ Catalogue of Roman Potter) 7 in the British Museum, 
1908,” by H. B. Walters. 
Drag. — “ Terra Sigillata,” by Hans Dragendorff, Bonner 
Jahrbuecher, Heft, xcvi., xcix., pp. 18, 155. 
Koenen.—“ Gefasskunde,” by Constantine Koenen, 1895. 
Ludowici, 1901-4.—“ Stempel-Namen Roemischer Toepfer von 
meinem Ausgrabungen in Rheinzabern,” by W. Ludowici, 
I 9°i'4* 
Neuss.—“ Die Keramik,” by Hans Lehner, in NOVAESIVM. 
Bonner Jahrbuecher, Heft, cxi-cxii., p. 336, 1904. 
Hofheim.—“Typen der Tongefaesse aus dem roemischen Lager 
bei Hofheim,’' by Ritterling, Nassauer Annalen, xxxiv, 1904. 
With permission of the authorities, Mr. Walters’ headings of 
the very useful Catalogue of the Roman Pottery in the British 
Museum have been adopted for the Table of Contents, and for 
the arrangement of the specimens, not only on account of their 
accuracy and completeness, but for the sake of uniformity with 
