176 WITH REMARKS UPON THE OBJECTS FOUND.
it we collected an abundance of fragments of the rough pottery,
and a few pieces of hard ware.
On reviewing the results of the work at Bower Hall Farm
we were again impressed by the very large proportion of the
rough coarse ware, sometimes occurring in quite large pieces,
which, owing to their soft nature and saturation with moisture,
were very fragile. The "T-pieces" and wedges were compara-
tively rare, as was also the Romano-British pot-shards—in fact,
we kept all that were found. No Samian ware was observed,
nor have we found worked flints in any of our cuttings.
During the same year we dug into a Red-hill situate on the
"Grassy-Marsh" (inside the sea
wall) on Ivy House Farm, East
Mersea, by kind permission of Mr.
Cant, the tenant. This is on the
piece of marsh near East Mersea
Stone (6in. Ordnance Sheet 47,
N.E.), less than a quarter of a mile
from the water. The "hill" was
roughly oval, about 450 feet in
circumference. The working party
was the same, with the kind assist-
ance of Mr. R. Wood, the foreman
of the farm. The results of the
work were almost identical with our
experiences at Bower Hall Farm.

FIG 4.—DOUBLE PRONG-SHAPED
PIECE OF POTTERY, FROM A RED-
II ILL AT IVY HOUSE FARM, EAST
MERSEA (restored).
The same kind of burnt earth, the
rough pottery, T and wedge-shaped
pieces, but the pottery was more

fragmentary and decayed. Here,
as in other hills, were found roughly shaped masses of
burnt clay, which could hardly be called pottery; one
piece kept from the "Grassy Marsh" hill is quite 21/2 inches
thick. One notable find was a piece of clay similar to the
shaft of a "T-piece,'' but which had apparently been made with
a double prong at the end (see the restoration at Fig. 4). This
object is commented upon below. It may be noted that two of
the pieces of thick rough pottery from this spot have a yellow
glaze; we have found no other examples of this. (See post.)