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made as probably the flat portions of a squared-topped 
vessel. So far we have found nothing in the Enmore 
pottery which raises it to any much higher type than that 
of some of the higher uncivilised races of North America. 
But the pottery with which we aredealingrisestoastage 
far higher than that of mere raised and incised patterns ; 
for much of the ornamentation is by means of most 
artistically wrought grotesque figures, heads, faces and 
whole bodies of men and other animals, which have evi- 
dently been, in some few cases still are, luted on to the 
vessel, by way of ornament and handle combined. Such 
are Nos. 12 to 21, all of which deserve special notice. 
No. 12 is the half length figure of a man, leaning on his 
elbows, his hands pressed against his cheeks, who must 
have leaned out from the pot to which he was luted, much 
as a gargoyle leans out from an old English church. 
Indeed the grotesque conception of many of these clay 
figures strikingly recalls that of the gargoyles. No. 13 
most artistically represents the whole body of some ani- 
mal, to which, however, very life-like as is the modelling, 
it is not easy to give a name. No. 14 represents an 
animal in much the same position and style ; but it is 
either a differentanimalor, as is most probable, both figures 
represent a mere grotesque, such as existed only in the 
imagination of the potter. Nos. 15, 16, and 17 also show 
the whole figure of grotesque animals, as does the handle 
on No. 7, to which allusion has already been made. In 
Nos. 7 and 16 is shown a somewhat different kind of 
handle, occurring commonly enough at Enmore, which is 
pierced and thus made more convenient ; in the examples 
under notice the desired end is achieved by modelling an 
animal with its upper and lower extremities touching the 
