The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 1 (of 2) : $b being a history of the ancient and modern pottery and porcelain works of the kingdom and of their productions of every class — John Shaqi
The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 1 (of 2) : $b being a history of the ancient and modern pottery and porcelain works of the kingdom and of their productions of every classJewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
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The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 1 (of 2) : $b being a history of the ancient and modern pottery and porcelain works of the kingdom and of their productions of every class
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
Pottery, British -- History
Figs. 91, 92, 93, and 95 are more bottle shaped--in fact, approaching
somewhat to the form of the mediæval bellarmine. Many varieties of this
general form have been found in the marshes and elsewhere. Fig. 89 is
particularly simple and elegant in shape, as are also several shown in
the groups on this and the preceding pages. Among these is an example
of another variety of ornamentation common to the Upchurch ware. It is
formed by diagonal intersecting lines, and in form is much the same as
the ordinary kind of Roman cinerary urns. In the group, Fig. 94, are
some examples of Upchurch and other wares.
No kilns have as yet been discovered in the Upchurch marshes, but
doubtless further researches will yet bring them to light. Mr. Roach
Smith, to whose incessant labours we owe the principal notices of these
potteries, has discovered the remains of the extensive village of the
potters, with traces of their habitations and of their graves, in the
higher ground bordering on the marshes.
_Castor Ware_, or _Durobrivian Ware_, as it is variously
called, is the production of the extensive Romano-British potteries on
the river Nen, in Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire; near Castor and
Chesterton, in those counties respectively. In this locality, as the
names of Chesterton and Castor undeniably prove to have been the case,
an important settlement of the Romans was made, and excavations have
brought to light the remains of a considerable town, and in connection
with it, of a settlement of potters with the remains of their works
extending over a district many miles in extent.
The great interest attaching to this locality is in the fact that this
was not the first, but the first well ascertained discovery of a Roman
pot-manufactory in this kingdom, and that at this spot the first kilns
of that period have been uncovered, and the processes adopted by the
Roman _figuli_ brought to light.
[Illustration: Fig. 96.--Castor Ware.]
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