Besides the pedestalled vases from Aylesford,[254] made in imitation of
the cordoned _situlæ_ of bronze from the North-Italian region, there
are others, perhaps derived from them, with elegantly formed bases.
There are also vases without pedestals, and having somewhat globular
bodies as well as bowl-shaped and saucer-shaped pots. Most of these are
now in the British Museum.
[254] A fine example of this type from Sandy, Beds, is illustrated in
T. Fisher’s _Bedfordshire_.
The following list gives the finds of pottery of a similar kind:—
_List of Localities where Finds of Late-Celtic Pottery
of the Aylesford Type have been made._
Kit’s Coty House (Maidstone Mus.) Kent.
Allington (Maidstone Mus.) Kent.
Northfleet Kent.
Elveden Essex.
Shoebury Essex.
Braintree Essex.
Locality unknown (Cambridge Mus.)
Hitchin Herts.
Aston Clinton (Aylesbury Mus.) Bucks.
Abingdon (Ashmolean Mus.) Berks.
Whitechurch (Dorchester Mus.) Dorset.
Weymouth (British Mus.) Dorset.
[Illustration: LATE-CELTIC POTTERY FROM YARNTON, OXFORDSHIRE; NOW IN
THE BRITISH MUSEUM
SCALE ¾ LINEAR]
[Illustration: LATE-CELTIC POTTERY FROM KENT’S CAVERN, NEAR TORQUAY,
DEVONSHIRE; NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
SCALE ¾ LINEAR]
Another class of pottery is recognised to belong to the Late-Celtic
period, not so much by the forms of the vases (because most of them are
in a very fragmentary condition) as by the patterns upon them, which
consist of incised curved lines, circles, dots, and different kinds of
cross-hatching and shading. A list of the finds is given below.
_List of Localities where Finds of Late-Celtic Pottery,_
_ornamented with Incised Lines, Circles, Dots, and Shading,_
_have been made._
Hunsbury (Northampton Mus.) Northamptonshire.
Mount Caburn (Pitt-Rivers Coll.) Sussex.
(British Mus.)
Brighton (Brighton Mus.) Sussex.
Highfield Pits, near Salisbury
(Blackmore Mus., Salisbury) Wiltshire.
Kent’s Cavern, Torquay (British Mus.) Devonshire.
Glastonbury Marsh Village
(Glastonbury Mus.) Somersetshire.
Kingsholm (Ashmolean Mus.) Gloucestershire.
Yarnton (British Mus.) Oxfordshire.
Those who wish to compare the Late-Celtic pottery of Britain with
Gaulish pottery of the same character may, with advantage, consult the
_Dictionnaire Archéologique de la Gaule_, and Paul du Chatellier’s _La
Poterie aux époques préhistoriques et gauloise en Armorique_.