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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
In the spring of the past year I received information from my friend the Reverend J. Pemberton Bartlett of the discovery of what appeared to be the site of potteries during the Roman possession of Britain, in the western district of the New Forest. Mr. Bartlett, at the same time, forwarded a hamper of the shards which had been turned up, and also a number of vessels which he had succeeded in obtaining by excavations on the spot. These examples were exhibited to the Society, and excited much speculation among those members who had made the subject of Roman fictile ware their study. At a subsequent period I had the gratification of exploring the localities, and in the succeeding autumn I again paid a visit to the Forest in company with my friend, whose zeal for the acquisition of all possible intelligence regarding these remains I cannot too much commend. But I must give, in his own words, the particulars relating to the discovery, and his account of repeated visits to the spot, which were continued until the close of the past year.
page 95 note a Two of these coins were exhibited to the Society on the 9th December last (see Proceedings, vol. II. p. 278). They are of Valens and of Julian the Apostate; and, if their deposit may in any way be connected with these kilns, they support the view I have taken as to the age of the latter.—J. Y. A.
page 97 note a Saturnalia, vii. c.
page 98 note a Examples of the more perfect vessels are given in the Plate, and specimens of the ornamentation on the fragments represented in the Woodcuts. The first seven (a to g) are white on a dark ground; the others (1 to 26) are ornamented both with an indented pattern and white figures, which are represented in outline only.