been used as a cooking-pot. It is of a dark-grey colour, showing a band of lattice-work pattern round the side. The material is soft. The curve of the rim associates it with the later vessels, and the same ware occurs in the inner
FIG. 28. SECTIONS OF RIMS OF COOKING-POTS
NOS. 1, 2 AND 3, INNER DITCH, EAST ANNEXE. NOS. 4 AND 5, GREAT DITCH, WEST FRONT. NO. 6, INNER DITCH SYSTEM, WEST ANNEXE. NOS. 7, 8, 9 AND 10, PIT XLV. NO. 11, PIT XLIX
ditches of the West Annexe, all of which circumstances, combined with the find-spot, appear to indicate that it belongs to the Antonine period.
3. BEAKERS
Beakers. Type 45
Plate XLVIII., Type 45; also Plate L. (A), Fig. 7. Beaker of thin white ware, covered with a black engobe and decorated with figures of animals in barbotine, commonly known as Castor ware. Height 4¾ inches, diameter at mouth 3¾ inches, narrowing at the foot to 1¾ inches. The decorative band is about 21⁄8 inches deep. The animals represented are a
FIG. 29. DESIGN FROM BEAKER OF CASTOR WARE
stag pursued by a great-jawed hound, and a hind followed by a second hound (Fig. 29). The hounds have collars round their necks. The decorative
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