ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
3 1 
9. Cover-lid for a wide bowl, diam. 8 t t - inches. Cylindrical 
sides fin. high ; conical top rising to a ringed holder. 
Castor fabric. 
Pale paste coated with black varnish. 
The sides and half the top surface covered with roulette-hatching bordered 
by double grooves at the angle and inside edge. 
The shape of the bowl with lid is shown above in outline, taken 
from Artis, Duvobvivce , plate 49, fig. 4. 
Walters, Cat., M 2732, fig. 278. 
Peterborough Museum, Huntley Collection, similar example 
from Orton, near Castor (Durobrivae). 
Guildhall Mus. Cat., XLVI., 12. 
Brit. Arch. Assoc., vol. II., from Billericay. 
Colchester Mus., 998 and fragments. 
Plates XII a and b. 
8 . Painted or parti-coloured. 
The purely decorative use of painting with colours was 
unknown in the Augustan period, and is seldom employed until 
the Rhenish ‘ motto-goblets,’ with lettering and other ornaments 
in white and yellow slip came into use in the middle of the 
III. Century. Not until the Constantine period, or beginning of 
the IV. Century did painted ornamentation come in common use-. 
New Forest painted wares are represented at York only by 
fragments. Castor-ware specimens are naturally more numerous, 
the two places being joined by a direct highway and by the two 
nearest navigable rivers. 
1. Globular Vase (partly restored from fragments), on a 
pedestal foot with out-bent thickened lip, form 54. 
Dark red with bright red glaze resembling terra sigillata. 
Round the body, pattern painted in slender lines of white slip, before 
glazing, consisting of lozenges with vertical diagonals and dividing lines, and, 
in the inter spaces, a row of discs encircled by small dots, and of berries in 
triangular symmetry, 3:2:1. 
Patterns composed of discs or berries with raised centres 
painted in white slip is a kind of ornament which was prevalent 
in the Constantine period,—first half of IV 7 . Century. Kcenen, 
p. no, XVIII., 1—13. 
A Castor ware goblet painted with a similar pattern, but of a 
different shape, is illustrated in the Guildhall Mus. Cat. XII., 14. 
