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Grave-mounds and their contents; a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods (1870)

Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William, 1816-1886 · London : Groombridge · leaf 193

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all present thosedelicate forms of the curve which we recognise at once ascoming from the hands of the Roman artist. The textureof the pottery itself is fine, and it is very thin. The orna- UPCHURCH WARE. 163 mentation also is varied, but not very elaborate or veryrefined. One of the patterns… … (fig. 230). The little vessel in the front of the cut has hadtwo handles, but one is lost; it is supposed to be an incensepot. The instruments used in the ornamentation of this pot-tery appear to have been of a very rude description, andwere, as it seems, chiefly mere sticks, some sharpened to…

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