ANCIENT POTTERY FOUND AT TWITTY FEE, DANBURY. 115
Plate IX, fig. 5. (Mr. Dunning's description): "Fragment
"of small carinated bowl or cup with narrow cordons on the
"neck. Wheel-turned, fine, sandy, light red ware, coated
"black surface.
"Compare with similar cups from Lexden and Kelvedon,
"(Swarling Report, p. 22, Pl. XI, 3, 9)."
At least eleven examples of this form were found at Sheepen,
but that means that they were comparatively scarce. One
without cordons is illustrated with a pedestal urn of Hertford-
shire type from Abbots Langley (Ant. Journ. II, p. 259).
Plate IX, fig. 6 (Mr. Dunning's description): "Small bowl
"with broad, low cordon above the shoulder, and probably
"with foot-ring, like Swarling type 25. Wheel-turned fine grey
"ware with sparse grit, light reddish brown slip with tooled
"surface." (Compare Swarling, Pl. IX, 22-25.) The type is
scarcely represented in Essex unless a few sherds at Sheepen
belong to it.
Plate IX, fig. 7. Many fragments amounting to a large
portion of a bowl, or olla, of brown ware with brown to black
mottled surface, polished on neck and rim. The everted lip
and insloping neck are typically Belgic. At the base of the neck
is a slight cordon. The base has the usual groove beneath.
Except for the unusual height the vessel is of a form well
known in the early first century A.D. in and around Colchester.
The more upright rim and neck was contemporary and more
common and lasted further into the Roman period.
(Compare Colch. Mus. Rep., 1928, Pl. VIII, 6371, 27, XV
5560, 27, 1927, Pl. III, 5321. May, Colchester, Pl. IV, 29,
31.) One not unlike ours was found with burials of mid-first
century date at Great Wakering.
The cordon is by no means always present. If a bold groove
is added to it on the shoulder a very fine variant is produced.
(See Col, Mus. Rep., 1928, Pl. VII, top, not numbered.)
The type is not common at Sheepen, the more rounded form
with upright rim like Plate X, Nos. 10 and 11 below far
outnumbering it.
Plate IX, fig. 8. Large fragment of the rim of a wide-
mouthed bowl of thick, heavy ware, rather black surface, not
soapy to the feel. It is possible that the rim may have been a
little distorted and caused the diameter to be drawn too large.