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and distinct from each other; one of two modern specimens from
Doulton's factory, kindly presented by Mr. F. W. Reader, is
figured (Fig. 2 1). I then looked upon the Romano-British
pottery, of which the fragments might be "wasters," as the
objective of the works, and Mr. I. Chalkley Gould alluded to this
opinion in his chapter on the Red-hills in the Victoria History.
If this hypothesis were the true one, we ought to find remains
of kilns near the Red-hills. Mr. Reader hints "these would
probably be seen as circular depressions, being shallow pits with
FIG 5.—SUGGESTION AS TO THE USE OF THE "T-PIECES."
a neck or opening for the furnace." I am not aware that
anything of the kind has yet been noticed.
But although no one who has worked at them can reasonably
doubt that the Red-hills indicate pottery-making, later thought
over the problem has suggested a further supposition, which
appears to be well worthy of consideration, inasmuch as it
accounts fairly well for all the known facts.
The paucity of the remains of the harder pottery hardly
seems to accord with the quantity of "wasters" which we
should expect to find in such extensive manufactories. Is it
possible that these are simply portions of broken domestic
utensils used by the workers, and that the large, coarse vessels were
really the object of the pottery-making? Such rough pots or pans