ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
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A goblet of similar four-sided form is described as New 
Forest ware of late date, by Pitt-Rivers, Excav. in Cranbovne Chase , 
Rotherley, II., plate CVIII., No. 1. 
Another example closely resembling the York one, but coated 
with black lustre, is in the Colchester Museum, Gen. Coll., 
No. 141. 
Folded, fluted and indented drinking vessels were made in large 
numbers in both the Castor (Durobrivae), and New Forest 
potteries. 
4. Large Fluted Beaker, with cylindrical neck rising from a 
bent-in shoulder. 
Plain lip ; ringed foot. Matt greyish-black slip, shading off into red near 
the base. Round the body long oval indentations. 
The proportions (40 : 65 : 29), indicate a late III. Century date. 
This vessel is one example of a series that can hardly be 
regarded as drinking vessels, as it stands 9^ inches high. 
5. Roulette-notched (engine-turned or hatched). 
Roulette notches in single rows, or covering zones and surfaces 
are met with on vessels of every variety of shape and size 
throughout the Roman period. That they are produced 
mechanically with a little toothed roller or roulette is evidenced 
by their being of equal size and at equal distances. A roulette- 
found on the site of the potteries at Heddernheim in 1904-5, is 
described by Welcker ( Hedd . Mitteil ., IV., p. 111, fig. 3, No. 1), 
as a small solid bronze wheel or cylinder 19 mm. (f inch) in 
diameter, and 9 mm. (f inch) wide, pierced in the centre with a 
4 mm. inch) hole for an axle, and toothed or grooved round 
the edge in a parallel direction to its axis. Near to it were 
vessels marked with its impressions. 
This technique is of Italian origin, and is wanting on vessels of 
the preceding Late Celtic or La Tene period. One of the earliest 
examples in this country is a sigillata ware cup in the Reading 
Museum from Silchester, with doubly curved sides, coated with 
horn-coloured glaze, the upper zone of which has been roulette- 
hatched before glazing. This cup, which is of Arretine fabric 
and of the Augustan period, is the prototype of the similarly 
shaped cup, form 27, of La Graufesenque and Lezoux fabric, 
which became so widely distributed during the first and early 
portion of the II. Century. 
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