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ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 
i. Vessels with coloured coating. 
c. Varnished and Slip-coated wares :—(including Castor and 
and New Forest Wares). 
Plate X. 
i. Barbotined. 
Beakers, forms 52 and 55 nearly, coated with variously 
coloured dull engobe or slip, most frequently dark slate coloured. 
Castor fabric. 
3, 5, 6. ‘ Hunt-Cups ’ or Beakers. 
Sharp-edged, grooved lip. Round the body, a frieze of reliefs,—hare or 
deer chased by hounds, bordered by dots or short strokes. 
10, 12. Beakers. 
Sharp-edged, grooved lip. Round the body, a scroll pattern bordered by 
dots in relief or slight grooves. 
According to Koenen, p. 86, plate XII., 25 this type first 
appears in the Flavian period, i.e., before A.D. 96. It is found 
fully developed in the Antonine period, A.D. 140-180, at 
Newstead. Curie, Neivstead , p. 254, plate XLVIII., type 45. 
A green glazed vessel of similar type, with gladiators, found 
near Nymwegen, is assigned to II. Century. Bonn , Jahrb., 116, 
p. 44, fig. 1. 
Two examples found at Corbridge “ may belong to the II. or 
even the III. century.” Idaverfield Arch. Ael. 2nd Series, V. 
(1909), p. 115, fig. 45* 
Walters, Cat. 1 ., M 2479—2517, plate XVI. 
1, 2. Beakers. 
Plain lip and ringed foot. A slight girth-groove half-an-inch to an inch 
below lip. Round the body, a belt of reliefs—animals of fantastic form, 
(1) dog and hare, (2) deer with head turned back and neck unnaturally 
extended—bordered by dots. 
7, 9, 13. Beakers. 
Plain lip and ringed foot. A slight girth-groove about half-an-inch below 
lip. Round the body, a scroll pattern bordered by dots in relief. 
4. Beaker. 
Plain lip. Round the body, two rows of leaves with curved stalks and 
pointed ends bordered by elongated drops in relief. 
