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fragments of a large jug-shaped vessel, of yellowish colour.
The second line was made up of six specimens, comprising a patera of black
pottery (3), on the north, and on the south a small black urn and patera; in
the centre was found a Samian patera (4), with a yellow-coloured urn (5), 3
1/8 inches high; on its left and on its right a bottle-shaped vessel (6) of
coarse red clay, 9 inches high, 5 inches in diameter at its widest part,
with a long narrow neck, tapering off to a diameter of 3/8 inch. From the
end of March work was discontinued, in this part of the field, until
November, when three cups of Samian ware were found. These, from their
proximity to the relics discovered in March, would seem to have belonged to
that group. Fifty feet in rear of the above-named vessels a bronze fibula
was found, which had been placed on a small heap of calcined human bones,
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accompanied by a black patera. To the
south-east of these, at a distance of eight feet, a similar heap of
bones was disclosed, with two large urns of coarse red clay, capable of
holding a gallon each, a Samian patera, a bronze fibula, and two vessels
of black ware (11). Twenty feet to the north of these came a small black
urn, a large vase of red ware, and close by, two black patera and one
black urn, neither of which could be secured in consequence of their
shattered condition. A few yards to the east, grouped around another
heap of bones, with a fibula placed thereon, were a yellow urn, a large
jug-shaped vessel of red ware, and two Samian cups (7). In a line with
these, and seven feet to the right, came a yellow urn (12), 5 inches
high, with a lid of blue-black pottery, the urn shewing signs of its
having been
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