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ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
Plates V. and VI. 5.—Plain Wares. 
(1) Flasks. (2) Tettines or Child’s Feeding Bottles (omitted). 
(3) Narrow-necked Jars or Pitchers (omitted). (4) Wide-mouthed 
Jars (Ollse). (5) Bowls. (6) Cups. (7) Flat Pans or Dishes. 
1. Small Flask. 
This is of rare form arid perfection, with domed mouth-piece, reeded handle, 
finely moulded foot-ring, a cordon at the lower part of the bulge, and two 
accurately turned girth-grooves on the shoulder. 
2. Globular Olla (form 72). 
The only ornament is a beaded rim and slight girth-groove at the joining of 
neck and bulge. Koenen, p. 105, xvi. 31, frequently found in Antonine grave- 
fields, A.D. I4O-I9O. 
3. Bowl (form 81). 
On the outside is the stamp GNATIVS (at ligulate), a name also found at 
Cirencester, but not recorded elsewhere in Britain or on the Continent. 
Walters’ Cat., plate XLIV. 8 t, m 2225, 2229, 2238, 2243. A similar bowl 
found at Wilderspool (May—“Warrington’s Roman Remains,” p. 62) bears the 
stamp SILVINVS FE, a Rutenian potter of the period a.d. 75-110. 
4. Cup (form 27). 
In the centre is the stamp BIG'A'FEC. Walters’ Cat. xli. a potter of 
uncertain locality ; xxv. a typical first century form. 
5. Cup (form 46). 
Koenen, p. 94, xiv. 11, found under circumstances which point to the earliest 
period of the Empire (before a.d. ioo) ; Smith’s Cat. of London Antiquities, 
p. 25, fig. 99. 
6. Cup (form 33). 
Walters’ Cat. xxv. More potters' names are found on form 33 than on any 
other form, and it is typical of the 2nd century, Koenen, p. 105, xvi. 30. It 
begins to supersede form 27 at the end of the 1st century, is seldom wanting in 
the Antonine grave-fields (a.d. 140-190), and continues in a modified form and 
inferior technique to the end of the Roman period. 
7. Cup (form 25). 
Chalky paste coated with a dull, thin, light-red glaze or slip. Round the 
lower part of the body a moulding, below which, and near the foot, are girth- 
grooves. 
Vessels of similar shape with a mottled-red coating, and others with small 
flat handles on either side, and a roulette hatched pattern below the brim, have 
been found in the burnt layer of Neuss (NOVAESIVM, p. 334, plate XXVI. 17) 
a.d. 70. 
8. Small Cup. 
Of elegant shape, with rounded body, slightly inverted lip, and two upright 
loop handles, coated with a thin pinkish-red glaze or slip. Round the lower 
part of the bulge is a slight girth-groove, and the under surface of the base is also 
grooved and carefully turned off with a plain moulding. The form has not been 
previously recorded. 
