ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
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8. Body Fragment of Globular Vessel, New Forest fabric. 
Red brown paste, coated with glossy brown-black varnish. 
Round the body, a double-lattice pattern painted in white slip, bordered 
below by a roulette notched groove. 
New Forest Ware. 
Though only represented by a single fragment of painted ware, 
the New Forest wares are too important and interesting to be 
omitted. They include the three following sorts— 
1. Hard stone-ware, containing a large proportion of ferro- 
silicate (iron-slag), with dark maroon varnish and painted patterns 
burnt in and clouded by the high temperature of the kiln. 
2. Soft pale paste, usually colour-coated red, and painted with 
patterns in white slip, the colours retaining their brightness owing 
to the lower kiln temperature. 
3. Black earthen-ware vessels with fluted sides of coarser 
texture. 
Pitt-Rivers, Excavations in Cranborne Chase , IV., p. 14; II., p. 142, 
plate CVIIL, No. 1. 
As above stated, the potteries are shown by a hoard of coins to 
have been at work down to the beginning of the V. Century. 
Plates XII la, b, c. 
FACE VASES. 
1. Amphora, in shape suggestive of the Myceneati ‘ biigelkanne ’ 
or false-necked vase, broken and wired together, but 
complete ; the mouth still sealed with clay and the contents 
undetermined, supposed to be burnt bones; the handles 
roughly semi-circular. 
Dark reddish paste with lighter red slip coating. 
Ornaments affixed to the upper cylindrical portion of the neck on either 
side : (1) a human face with somewhat tragical expression, (2) a vertical strip 
of clay (false or rudimentary handle) 2 inches long by § inch wide. 
On the shoulder, below the neck, a row of c/D-shaped scrolls ; on the upper 
portion of the body, running and winding scrolls bordered by engrailments, all 
in white paint. 
Castor fabric. Found at Carr Naze, Filey, Yorks., in 1857. 
A smaller vessel, without face-mask, but of somewhat similar 
shape and painted ornamentation, is illustrated and described by 
Jewitt, Ceramic Art in Great Britain , p. 38, fig. 34. 
