the Germano-Saxon graves. Four examples from the cemetery at Selzen, are given in the cat No, 4. We have here not only the rude-formed veſſels with lumps on the ſide, but alſo the charaderiftic ornament of An image should appear at this position in the text.No. 5. Germano-Saxon Pottery and Glaſs. croſſes in circles. The next cut. No. 5, repreſents two earthen veſſels of another deſcription, found in the graves at Selzen. The one to the right is evidently the prototype of our modern pitcher. I am informed there is, in the Muſeum at Dover, a ſpecimen of pottery of this ſhape, taken from an Anglo-Saxon barrow in that neighbourhood; and Mr. Roach Smith took fragments of another from an Anglo-Saxon tumulus near the ſame place. The other variation of the pitcher here given is remarkable, not on account of ſimilar ſpecimens having been found, as far as I know, in graves in England, but becauſe veſſels of a ſimilar form are found rather commonly in the Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuſcripts. One of theſe is given in the group No. 6, which repreſents An image should appear at this position in the text.No. 6. Anglo-Saxon Pottery. three types of the later Anglo-Saxon pottery, ſelected from a large number copied by Strutt from Anglo-Saxon manuſcripts. The figure to the left, in this group, is a later Saxon form of the pitcher; perhaps the ſingular form of the handle may have originated in an error of the draughtſman.
Among the numerous articles of all kinds found in the early Anglo-Saxon graves, are bowls of metal (generally bronze or copper), often very thickly gilt, and of elegant forms; they are, perhaps, borrowed from the Romans. Three examples are given in the cut No. 7, all found in Kent. They were probably intended for the ſervice of the table. Another claſsof
