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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 205

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he preceding chapters I have purposely avoided in-eluding vessels of Samian ware. As these are fre-quently found with sepulchral deposits, I now proceed tospeak of this peculiar and beautiful ware. Samian ware is that peculiarly fine, close-textured, andrichly-coloured red-ware, which is so… … hard and brittle, and is sonorous in sound when struck.The vessels of this ware consist for the most part of bowls,cups, and paters or dishes, in each of which divisions arefound an almost endless variety of forms, and while some are 176 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. perfectly plain, others are…

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