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ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN, 
Colchester Mus., Collection of Castor'Ware, No. 732. 
A neck-fragment of a similar vase from the site of the potteries 
at Castor is in the writer’s collection. 
2. Mouth-piece and part of neck of a Flask, on one side 
ornamented with a female face, and on the other with a flat 
double band of square section, like a rudimentary handle. 
Whitish-grey paste. 
Round the upper portion of the face, a raised band notched across to 
represent a fillet. Across the forehead, a diadem shaped band. The hair, eye¬ 
brows, head-dress, &c., are represented by painted bands of reddish-brown 
pigment. 
Such vessels are included among IV. Century wares, by Kcenen, 
p. 108, XVII., 20. 
Walters, Cat. liii., M 2757—2760, III Century? 
Wallis-Budge, Cat. of Chesters Mus., p. 68 and 391, No. 19, 
table-case A. 
Colchester Mus., Joslin Collection, grave groups 15, No. « 3 ; 
12, No. 58 ; 11, No. 51 ; 36, No. 213. This museum also contains 
the mouth-piece of a similar flask of larger size, decorated with a 
female face of much finer modelling, probably a work of Hellenic 
art, such as forms the prototype of the later Roman examples. 
Gen. Coll. 702-04. 
They are stated to be a type of pottery of the III.—IV. 
Centuries, by Dechelette, II., p. 324, plate VIII., 3. 
3. Vase, in the form of a complete human head (female). The 
opening is on the top of the head and encircled with a 
plain rim. A flat base is formed by the lower portion of 
the neck. 
Soft, light, reddish-brown plain clay. 
Nose prominent ; hair indicated as lightly drawn back from the face and 
knotted in the nape of the neck, and the separate locks by shallow grooves. 
Dechelette, II., p. 323 (3), plate X., 2, 3. 
Tudot, Figurines gauloises, p. 5, fig. VIII. 
4. Vase, in the form of a complete female head. 
Wide open at the top and finished unevenly without a rim. Broad and flat 
below, the neck being cut off short below the chin. 
Face coated with dull red slip. 
Locks of hair represented by grooved spirals and dark brown-red pigment. 
Eyebrows, eyelids, and lips also, rudely moulded and painted with dark colour. 
Dechelette, II., p. 322. 
