118 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
"The type is common in the early 1st century A.D. at Prae
"Wood, St. Albans (Antiquity, VI, 144, fig. 8, 47-8)." But it
has not yet been definitely recognised at Sheepen, though it may
well be there. The tubby outline with wide base is character-
istic of the cruder cooking-pots at Sheepen, which have different
rims, see figure 2, Nos. 5-8.
Plate X, fig. 14. The most part of this pot was found and
enabled a reconstruction to be made. It is a cooking-pot of
generous proportions with a small, simply outcurved rim. The
ware is soft, yellow-brown, with black interior surface. Several
holes have been bored in the base after firing.
Similar cooking-pots were quite numerous at Sheepen, but
never in such poor ware; indeed, they are mostly thin, good
ware and many must be described as Romanised. Vessels of
this type are very frequently covered with horizontal rilling.
There are two such fragments from Twitty Fee, and two more
perforated bases, one of which has been published by Mr.
Dunning (Ant. Journ., XIV. p. 189, fig. 9).
Fig. 2 (on p. 119) reproduces such rim fragments as are large
enough to have any significance.
Nos. 1 and 2 are rims of fine native ware bowls with a double
cordon on the shoulder. A few like these have been found at
Sheepen without any further indication of the form of the body.
No 3 is a rather battered fragment from a native bowl of one
of the commonest forms at Sheepen.
No 4 has been described under Large coarse pots above.
No 5 is the rim of a tub-shaped cooking-pot of a well-known
type at Sheepen. The ware is full of holes and of a consistency
like cork composition. Diam. c. 7-8 ins.
No. 6 is a rim of extremely soft ware and probably comes
from a pot of another standard type, also tub-shaped and with
a band of finely combed or impressed strokes round the shoulder.
No. 7 two fragments of a rim of standard Sheepen type in
brown ware with knobbly black surface exactly as at Sheepen.
Diam. 53/4 ins.
No. 8 similar rim but larger.
No. 9 rim of a cooking-pot with bead-lip and decoration of
horizontal striations, exactly as Plate X, fig. 13 above.
No. 10 described under Butt-beakers above.
No. 11 described under Plate X, No. 9 above.