Portions of a frilled tazza of brown ware. The upper part of a beaker urn of 'rustic ware.' In the upper levels part of a much corroded brass coin of a Flavian Emperor.
Cleared out 14 September, 1908.
PIT LIX. Diameter at surface 7 feet 6 inches; at bottom 5 feet. Depth 28 feet 9 inches. For a depth of 20 feet from the surface, the filling was yellow clay, like the natural subsoil, with occasional patches of darker material.
Finds. At 12 feet, five fragments of decorated bowls of probably part of the filling in of the Antonine period. One of these certainly German, the rest probably Lezoux (page 225, Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 6). At 20 feet, the usual black material began and continued to the bottom. From 20 to 23 feet, bottom of a cup (Type, Dragendorff 27); three or four portions of Terra Sigillata bowls (Type, Dragendorff 29), (page 213, Figs. 2, 3 and 4); a piece of 'rustic ware'; several pieces of a small beaker urn of very fine black ware, with decorated rim (Plate LI., Fig. 5); fragment of rim of a mortarium; a section of the base of a deer horn carved with a phallus (Plate LXXXIV., Fig. 14); a weaving comb (Plate LXVIII., Fig. 4); bronze object with settings for enamel (Plate LXXV., Fig. 11). A small brass hook, a short gouge-like tool of iron; a piece of iron 14 feet long, recalling the neck of a pilum; an edging of brass (Plate XXXV., Fig. 1).
Cleared out 8 October, 1909.
PIT LX. Diameter at surface 5 feet; at bottom 4 feet. Depth 18 feet. The black deposit began at 12 feet and continued to the bottom.
Finds. An iron stylus. The handle of an amphora resembling Type, Haltern, Band ii. Fig. 26. The side of an early flat-rimmed shallow bowl. In washing out the silt, a circular belt or harness mounting of bronze, with silver plating (Plate LXXIV., Fig. 2); also a number of small studs of brass employed for the decoration of leather.
Cleared out 21 October, 1908.
PIT LXI. Diameter at surface 7 feet 6 inches; at bottom 3 feet. Depth 36 feet. The black deposit began at 12 feet 6 inches and continued to the bottom.
Finds. At 20 feet, a very long fine whetstone (Plate LXII., Fig. 2); pieces of decorated bowls (Type, Dragendorff 37), (page 213, Figs. 5 and 6), one with the stamp. CRVCVRO; a piece of a bowl (Type, Dragendorff 30). At 21 feet, the pieces of an iron gridiron (Plate LIII., Fig. 2). Between 23 feet and 28 feet, two skulls of horses, an ox skull and some bones; also one or two pieces of leather. At 32 feet, lying beneath a large stone, a quern of Niedermendig lava, complete with its iron spindle; a dolabra with the maker's stamp (Plate LVII., Fig. 1); two long pick-like objects without eyes for the shafts (Plate LVIII., Figs. 7 and 8); the
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