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ROMAN MANCHESTER RE-STUDIED.
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common as the blackware. We have four specimen, bowls and dishes of a redware, the inner and outer side sprinkled with mica.

White-ware, of pipe clay, the paste gritty, unglazed, some large jars.

Yellow-ware.—Of the smaller fictile class, both the white and yellow ware is conspicuous for its great quantity. It is smoothly turned on the two sides, without glaze.

Castor-ware is strikingly poorly represented here, and only two pieces have been found by me.

Frilled Red-ware.—Of this class we have seven good specimens.

Rough-Cast Ornamentation, types of bar, lozenge, hatching, pellets, fir-cone zone, wave-line, zig-zag, herring-bone, diagonal and cross bands, indented bands, rows of dots, arranged in squares, are well represented. They are not peculiar to Britain, and recently I found many good examples in Bonn, Germany, of superior execution and glaze.

Lamps.—One of yellow-brown terra cotta, plain, 3 inches in diameter, and stamped s a m (?), was found in Bridgewater Street, now in possession of Mr. Cunningham, Corporation inspector, 110, Duke Street, Old Trafford. Another one from the former collection of C. Bradley (see Harland's MS. notes), from Castlefield, was acquired by the Salford Museum; part of another recently at Bridgewater Street. These are the only finds made.

Large Circular Lids.—These have not often been found. I have a large flat circular one with a knob in centre, convex, 8 inches diameter, grey; another of yellow