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"rather coarsely scored grooves. Similar grooves are slashed
"diagonally on the top of the shoulder and into the lower part
"of the neck, and a row slanting in the opposite direction runs
"below the shoulder. In the hollow of the neck are deep
"finger-tip impressions, made before the diagonal strokes
"were incised, as the latter cut into the edges of the impressions.
"It is most probable that a row of these finger marks ran round
"the pot, although the two examples preserved on the sherd
"suggest an irregular spacing. On a level with the top edges
"of these impressions is a line of small faint strokes, probably
"made by a finger-nail.
"Inside the bowl the inturned edge of the rim is decorated
"with diagonal incisions, while below is a rough and faintly
"scored pattern of intersecting lines.
"The pattern on the exterior is quite normal and typical.
"The finger-tip impressions are a curious but by no means
"uncommon feature.1 The criss-cross design on the interior
"is, however, distinctly rare in the British Peterborough ware;
"it occurs at Peterborough itself2; at the West Kennet Long
"Barrow,3 and on some abnormal sherds from Icklingham,
"Suffolk, in the Sturge Collection at the British Museum.4
"Outside these examples it appears to be unknown."
HALLSTATT.
I reproduce here Mr. Dunning's account of this ware, with
a few additional notes on the subsequent discoveries.
Plate VII. 1. "Fragment of a small barrel-shaped pot,
"with row of vertical incisions above the bulge. Apparently the
"grooves were made by pressing a rounded tool (a stick or small
"bone) into the soft clay and drawing it downwards, thus
"squeezing out the clay into a small lump below the groove.
"Hard light brown ware with quartz grit, uneven surface.
"The ware seems too hard for the late Bronze Age, and the pot
"is probably of the Hallstatt period."
Plate VII. 2. "Fragment of large, open, high-shouldered
"pot with flat rim and concave neck. The rim is rippled with
"thumb-marks and there are faint finger-tip marks round the
1 Arch Journ., lxxxviii., 119.
2 Antiq. Journ., ii., 231, fig. 11.
3 M. E. Cunnington, The Pottery from the Long Barrow at West Kennet, Wilts., P. VIII.,
Nos. 73-5 (especially No. 75).
4 Arch. Journ., lxxxviii., 125, fig. 17, Nos. 3, 4.