ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
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Plates XIVa and b. 
(a) Fumed Wares (including Upchurch, &c.) 
1. Ewer, with round body on a plain cylindrical base i \ inch 
high ; strong handle rising vertically from the rim, which 
is pinched in vertically to form a spout. Castor fabric. 
Dirty grey pasty clay, smoke-tinted to a darker surface ; very heavy in 
weight. 
Round the shoulder, rays or radiating grooves, inch in length, extending 
from the joining of the neck, where there is a cordon and roulette notched 
groove ; just below the lip, a slight groove. 
Another example is coated red. 
A similar ewer, of buff paste, black coated, in the Peterborough 
Museum, is from Castor (Durobriva). 
2. Narrow-necked Flask or Pottle. 
Dark grey paste, thickly black coated; very heavy in weight. 
Round the bulge, narrow roulette notched rows in three groups of 2, 2, and 
and 4 respectively. 
3. Studded Beaker, globular bodied, with short upright neck 
and ringed lip and foot. 
Thin fumed grey paste. 
Round the upper portion of the bulge, rows of clay studs in oblong groups. 
At the joining of the neck and body a slight cordon and groove; the under 
base carefully turned and hollowed. 
Proportions, 73 : 95 : 39. 
Cf. Koenen, p. 85, NIL, 16. 
Walters, Cat. li., M 2641—2657 Upchurch ware. 
Guildhall Mils. Cat., XLIII., 2, 3, 4, 6. 
Lehner, Novcpsium, XVII., 22 (A.D. 25—103). 
4. 5. Ridged Ollae, with small obliquely outset lip, ringed foot, 
and carefully turned slightly concave under base. 
Fine hard fumed grey clay with darker coating. 
4. Round the body, a band, 3^ inch wide, of raised rustic work en barbotine 
consisting of rough edged up and down ridges joined in the middle by a 
horizontal ridge; at the joining of neck and body, a ring or cordon. 
Proportions, 83 ; 92 : 43. 
5. Round the body a band of rough edged rustic work ridges, like 
diminutive mountain peaks, at irregular intervals. 
Proportions, So : no : 42. 
The origin of ridged ornament in the studs and ribs of the Late 
Celtic and Belgic ollae is illustrated by these two examples (see 
