PLATE I. Romano-British pottery, found at Brough. 1 to 5 Samian Ware; 6 to 8 Durobrivian Ware.
PLATE I.
Fig. 1. A large bowl 9 ins. in diameter, without ornament, but stamped at the bottom with the maker’s name I V S T I M A (by the hand of ustus).
Fig. 2. A potsherd illustrating the value set on Samian ware by the Roman housewife. Let into it is a lead-rivet. It will be seen that the mend was not very successful. Similar rivets of lead are figured in Pitt-Rivers ii plates cxi. and iii., plates clxxxv. 17, and in Artis’s Durobrivae plates xlviii.
Fig. 3. A vessel of simple but rather uncommon pattern, probably a wine cup. Height without base (which is lost) 3 ins. (see Roman Antiquities, Mansion House, plate facing p. 60, fig. 6.)
Fig. 4. A large fragment of a decorated bowl less fine in texture than fig. I. Below the rim is the characteristic festoon and tassel moulding which is found in endless variety of detail throughout the Roman Empire.
The other ornaments are as usual of a more or less sporting character. The maker’s name on Samian bowls is commonly stamped inside in the middle of the base. Here it is outside REGIN F (Reginus fecit.)
Fig. 5. Is the bottom of another bowl showing part of the Potters’ mark . . . . IASPE [Caprasias fecit?]
At the end of this paper I give a list of Potters’ marks found at Crocolana.
Plate 1, figs 6 to 8 are true Romano-British Ware. Almost certainly manufactured at or near Castor (Durobrivae) in Northants.
Fig. 6. The lid of a patera.
Fig. 7 and 8. Vases of “Indented Durobrivian Ware” of reddish brown colour, about 6½ ins. In height. Specimens almost identical with figs.6 and 7 are given in Artis’s “Durobrivae” plates xlix. and liii.