of fishes, scrolls, and human figures-were all glazed after the figures were laid on; where, however, the decorations are white, the vessels were glazed before

figures of animals was effected by means of sharp and blunt skewer instruments and a slip of suitable

consistency. These instruments seem to have been of two kinds-one thick enough to carry sufficient slip for the nose, neck, body, and front thigh; the other of a more delicate kind, for a thinner slip, for the tongue, lower jaws, eye, fore and hind legs, and tail. There seems to have been no retouching, after the slip trailed from the instrument. Field sports seem to have been favourite subjects with our Romano-British artists. The representations of deer and hare hunts are good and spirited; the courage and energy of the hounds, and the distress of the hunted animals, are given with great skill and fidelity, especially when the simple and offhanded process by which they must have been executed is taken into consideration."

Gladiatorial combats and mythological figures and groups are also frequent subjects for representation on the Castor vases. Another pleasing variety, peculiar to Castor ware, has the pattern of scrolls and flowers in white slip upon a dark bluishblack ground (Figs. 155 to 157, and 163).

Of Salopian ware two kinds especially are found in great abundance; the one white, the other of a rather light red colour. The white, which is made of what is commonly called Broseley clay, and is rather coarse in texture, consists chiefly of somewhat handsomely formed jugs or bellarmine-shaped vessels, of different sizes; of Mortaria; and of bowls of different shapes and sizes, which are often painted with stripes of red and yellow. The other variety.

the red Romano-Salopian ware, is also made from one of the clays of the Severn Valley, but is of finer texture, and consists principally of jugs not dissimilar to those in the white ware, except in a very different form of mouth; and of bowl-shaped colanders.

The pottery of the New Forest, in Hampshire, is of great variety of form and material. Some of the vessels are shown in Figs. 164 to 174, and these will be sufficient to give an idea of some of the most prevalent varieties of Romano-British pottery. Other potworks have been found at Colchester, Headington (near Oxford), Winterton, Wilderspool, London, Ashdon, York, Worcester, Marlborough, and many other places; but their peculiarities need not be entered upon here.

Anglo-Saxon pottery, so far as examples have come down to us, is almost, if not entirely, confined to sepulchral urns. We know, from the illuminated MSS. of the period, to which we are accustomed to turn for information upon almost any point, that other vessels (pitchers, dishes, etc.) were made and used, but those which have come down to us are almost exclusively sepulchral vessels. Cinerary urns are, therefore, almost the only known productions of the Saxon potteries, and these, like those of the Celtic period, were doubtless, in almost all cases, made near the spot where the burial took place, and were formed of the clays of the neighbourhood. The shapes of the cinerary urns are somewhat