ANCIENT POTTERY FOUND AT TWITTY FEE, DANBURY. 117
unusual, but occurs on straight-sided bowls (like Drag. form 30)
in the same ware at Sheepen. (Compare Arch. 71, p. 177,
fig. 13.99, from the Hambleden Villa.)
BUTT-BEAKERS.
There are fragments of at least two of these, possibly of three
or four. They were of thick native brown ware with a soapy
polished surface running from brown to a deep black. Their
barrel-shaped body is divided by bold horizontal cordons into
decorated zones exactly as on the similar vessels found in great
numbers at Sheepen. A complete example was found at
Burnham some years ago with a platter like Plate X, No. 9
below. A good example from Deal is illustrated in the Swarling
Report, Pl. IV, 2, centre.
Two of the Twitty Fee examples were decorated by vertical
parallel combing—the most usual style. One rim, figure 2,
No. 10, adequately describes both.
B. Coarse Ware.
Large coarse storage pots, with massive everted rim,
such as are typical of the early first century A.D. among the
Belgic tribes are represented by two rims and a few fragments.
The ware is brown and very soft. Only one rim could be drawn
(figure 2, No. 4), and it is of a type rare among the thousands
of rims at Sheepen, but common among the remains from
Shoebury. Our specimen is not black painted, but the second,
fragmentary rim, which is of a common Sheepen type, has been
painted black as was customary.
Small coarse pots comprise jars and cooking-pots and do
not form so large a proportion of the pottery as usual. The
ware is brown to black and leathery, with a lumpy, uneven
surface, full of holes and marks where chopped straw (?) and
grit has burnt out.
Plate X, fig. 13. (Mr. Dunning's description). "Cooking-
"pot with everted rim and rounded shoulder, restored from
"fragments. Roughly wheel-turned, coarse grey ware with
"sparse grit, tooled grey surface, light reddish-brown below the
"shoulder.
"The surface is roughly scored from the shoulder nearly to
"the base.