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surface in the silting of the ditch, but too high up to be
necessarily of the age of the construction of the camp.
No. 15. Fragment of pottery, about 1 inch round and much
weathered, 0.38 inch thick, brick-red on one side, the outside
and the rest black ; resembling some of the fragments found
in the rampart. Found in the bottom of the ditch.
No. 16. A fragment of pottery, 0.68 inch thick, red on
both sides and dark in the middle; too much weathered to
enable any idea to be formed of its shape, but resembling
No. 12 in composition. Found near bottom of ditch. In the
same spot was also found a small fragment of a rim,
1.25 inch by 0.25 inch, and 0.24 inch thick ; it appears
to have been more evenly formed than some of the pieces in
the rampart, but was unevenly baked, being red-brick on
both sides and black in the middle; perhaps lathe-turned.
Such a fragment might be Romano-British.
Besides the above there has been sent to me another
fragment without any number, 13/4 inch by 1 inch and
0.34 inch thick. This was found near the marks of fire
at the foot of the interior slope of the rampart, and therefore
probably deposited there subsequently to the construction of
the rampart. It is brick-red on the outside, and black on the
inside and in the middle ; it contains fragments of quartz and
sand ; it is harder than the fragments found in the rampart,
and has distinct marks of lathe-turning in the interior or
concave side. See Fig. 5, Pl. V. It is remarkable that
this, the only fragment which can with certainty be pro-
nounced to be lathe-turned, should be found in a position to
lead to the inference that it may be of later date than the
rampart; the only other piece which showed any indication
of lathe-turning, and that doubtfully, being No. 7 (No. 5a.
Fig. 1, the fragment which has the most evenly-formed rim,
was found near the same spot as the fragment represented in
Fig. 5, and was also in the silting of the interior slope). Grains
of quartz or pebble do not necessarily indicate any period, as
both the Romans and the Normans made pottery of this kind,
but harder and better baked than the specimens under con-
sideration. The rude construction of the pottery found in