^{page 262 note 1} For the definition of this term and general discussion of the material see Myres, J.N.L., ‘Romano-Saxon Pottery’ in Dark Age Britain, ed. Harden, D. B. (1956), pp. 16–39Google Scholar. Hereafter abbreviated to R.S.P. See also Myres, J. N. L., Anglo-Saxon Pottery and the Settlement of England (1969), pp. 66–70Google Scholar.

I am grateful to Dr. Myres, President S.A., for reading the draft of this paper and for making many valuable suggestions; however, the responsibility for opinions expressed remains my own.

^{page 262 note 2} I am indebted to Mr. E. O. Reed, Chelmsford Borough Librarian and Curator, and his staff for facilities to study and for permission to publish this material.

^{page 264 note 1} For example, from the Linford and Mucking sites: Barton, K. J., ‘Settlements of the Iron Age and Pagan Saxon Periods at Linford, Essex’, Trans. Essex Archaeol. Soc. i (3rd ser.), part 2 (1964), 57Google Scholar; Myres, J. N. L., ‘The Anglo-Saxon Pottery from Mucking’ in ‘Cropmark Sites at Mucking, Essex’, Antiq. Journ. xlviii, part ii (1968), 222Google Scholar.

^{page 265 note 1} The confusing similarity between the fabric of Romano-Saxon and Belgic wares has been noted previously: see R.S.P., p. 17.

^{page 265 note 2} R.S.P., fig. 3, group B.

^{page 265 note 3} R.S.P., fig. 2, no. 4, group A.

^{page 265 note 4} Dr. Myres has kindly examined and commented upon the Romano-Saxon pottery discussed in this paper. I am further indebted to him for permission to quote the Caistor parallels, in advance of his own publication of these.

^{page 265 note 5} See also J.R.S., lix (1969), 245, no. 66Google Scholar.

^{page 265 note 6} I am grateful to Mr. R. P. Wright, F.S.A. for offering this interpretation.

^{page 265 note 7} Anglo-Saxon Pottery and the Settlement of England, pp. 88, 104, 125 n., 216 and fig. 35.

^{page 265 note 8} A programme of rescue excavation and research, sponsored by the Ministry of Public Building and Works and the Essex Archaeological Society, under the direction of Miss K. A. Gomer has now begun (September 1970). Further inquiries have been made which lead us to believe that the pottery in question may have been found during building operations on the site of the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery on the Kelvedon-Feering parish boundary (TL 867192).

^{page 266 note 1} For example, see Mynard, D., ‘Two Romano-British Pottery Funnels from Fenny Stratford’, in Antiq. Journ. xlii (1962), 250CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

^{page 266 note 2} The term is used here in its specific sense, as defined in C.B.A. Research Report No. 6 (reprinted 1969). The fabric is also known as ‘cooking pot ware’.

^{page 266 note 3} The Camulodunum pottery type-series in M. R. Hull, Roman Colchester (1958).

^{page 266 note 4} My thanks are due to Mr. R. B. Doyle, Assistant Curator of Thurrock Local History Museum, for permission to study and publish this collection.

^{page 266 note 5} Rodwell, W. J. and Gomer, K. A., ‘Prehistoric, Roman and Saxon finds from Stanford le Hope’, Trans. Essex Archaeol. Soc. iii (3rd ser.), part 1 (forthcoming)Google Scholar.

^{page 267 note 1} Op. cit. This belongs to group B in R.S.P.; see fig. 3, no. 5.

^{page 267 note 2} See above. This is not one of the common fourth-century orange colour-coated wares which are often decorated with rosette stamps.

^{page 267 note 3} In Anglo-Saxon Pottery: a Symposium, C.B.A. Research Report No. 4; reprinted from Medieval Archaeology, iii (1959).

^{page 267 note 4} Ibid., fig. 2.

^{page 267 note 5} van Es, W. A., Wijster, A Native Village beyond the Imperial Frontier 150–423 A.D. (1967)Google Scholar; cf. fig. 104, no. 753 and fig. 166, pattern IXB₃ (several examples).

^{page 268 note 1} W. A. van Es, Wijster, fig. 55, no. 13.

^{page 268 note 2} Rescue excavation by Ministry of Public Building and Works and Wickford Archaeological Society. Rodwell, W. J., ‘Wick ford: Fourth Interim Report’, Trans. Essex Archaeol. Soc. ii (3rd ser.), part 3 (1970), 331Google Scholar. The finds from this site have been deposited in Southend Museum. Since writing the ‘body’ of this report sherds of another twelve Romano-Saxon vessels have been found: they comprise seven sherds with dimples, three with bosses, and two with cruciform motifs.

^{page 268 note 3} Cf. R.S.P., fig. 7, no. 1; there the centre piece of the rosette is a circular boss.

^{page 268 note 4} Also cf. Wiister, fig. 166, nos. 285, 338.

^{page 269 note 1} van Es, op. cit.

^{page 269 note 2} The sherds illustrated in figs. 4e-f and 5b—f were all found during the 1969 season of excavation, See Rodwell, W. J., ‘Wickford: Fifth Interim Report’, Trans. Essex Archaeol. Soc. iii (3rd ser.), part 1 (forthcoming)Google Scholar.

^{page 269 note 3} R.S.P., fig. 4.

^{page 269 note 4} Ibid., fig. 8, no. 4.

^{page 269 note 5} Ibid., fig. 7, no. 5.

^{page 269 note 6} May, T., The Roman Pottery found at Silchester (1916)Google Scholar, pl. lxxxii. This stamp is 1·4 cm. in diameter and is basically a cross-in-pellet motif; an additional mark was interpreted by May, without any good reason, as an attempt to make it a Chi-Rho. May calls this ‘fifth century ware’, without any evidence.

^{page 269 note 7} A separate paper on the well and its contents is being prepared.

^{page 271 note 1} Op. cit., fig. 5, no. 3.

^{page 271 note 2} R.S.P., fig. 7, no. 6.

^{page 271 note 3} For example, R.S.P., fig. 2, no. 1.

^{page 271 note 4} Cf. R.S.P., fig. 1, no. 7.

^{page 271 note 5} Ibid., fig. 6, no. 3.

^{page 271 note 6} Op. cit., for instance in fig. 97, nos. 4, 5; fig. 98, no. 1090; fig. 99, no. 3.

^{page 271 note 7} See Trans. Essex Archaeol. Soc. ii (3rd ser.), part 1 (1966), 95. The early Saxon material has been found since this note was written. The finds will be published in due course, and deposited in Southend Museum.

^{page 272 note 1} R.S.P., fig. 6, no. 1.

^{page 272 note 2} A great quantity of Iron Age and Romano-British pottery has been recovered from eroded sites on the saltings. Notes have been published in Trans. Essex Archaeol. Soc. i (3rd ser.), part 4 (1965), 265; ii, part 1 (1966), 95; part 2 (1968), 158; and part 3 (1970), 329. A comprehensive report is in preparation.

^{page 272 note 3} R.S.P., fig. 4. Cf. nos. 7 and 8.

^{page 272 note 4} Ibid., no. 7 and fig. 8, no. 3, respectively.

^{page 272 note 5} Land at the rear of 21 Moulsham Street. W. J. Rodwell, ‘Chelmsford Excavations, 1968’, Trans. Essex. Archaeol. Soc. ii (3rd ser.), part 3 (1970), 332. The finds are in the Chelmsford and Essex Museum.

^{page 272 note 6} Excavation by P. J. Drury for Wickford and District Archaeological Society. I am grateful to Mr. Drury for making these sherds available in advance of his full report. For an interim report see Trans. Essex Archaeol. Soc. ii (3rd ser.), part 3 (1970), 339 The finds will be deposited in Southend Museum.

^{page 273 note 1} R.S.P., fig. 5.

^{page 273 note 2} Ibid., no. 9.

^{page 273 note 3} A sherd of a bossed pot from Colchester is illustrated in Dunnett, B. R. K., ‘Excavations on North Hill Colchester’, Archaeol. Journ. cxxiii (1966)Google Scholar, fig. 12, no. 32. The boss could possibly Libhave been applied, but the drawing is not clear and the text description inadequate.

^{page 273 note 4} For East Tilbury see T. May, Catalogue of. Roman Pottery in the Colchester and Essex Museum (1930), pl. vii. For West Tilbury see Wheeler, R. E. M., London in Roman Times (1930)Google Scholar, fig. 56, no. 7.

^{page 273 note 5} My thanks are due to Mr. D. G. MacLeod, Assistant Curator, for bringing this sherd to my attention, and to Mr. L. Helliwell, Borough Librarian and Curator, for permission to publish,

^{page 274 note 1} Found and excavated by Mr. J. Tildesley, to whom I am grateful for the opportunity to examine products of the kilns.

^{page 274 note 2} R.S.P.

^{page 274 note 3} K. J. Barton, op. cit.

^{page 274 note 4} J. N. L. Myres, op. cit.

^{page 274 note 5} Now in the British Museum. See Trans, Essex Archaeol. Soc. N.s.v (1895), 236ff.; reprinted from Proc. Soc. Antiq. (2nd ser.), xv.

^{page 274 note 6} At the time of going to press excavations were being undertaken by Mr. P. J. Drury for Chelmsford Excavation Committee in Rochford Road, Chelmsford. Several sherds of Romano-Saxon pottery have been found, stratified in late Roman deposits. One sherd bears similar decoration to that on the upper cordon of the Kelvedon vessel; the fabric is also similar. In addition, the latest levels have produced a considerable quantity of sub-Roman pottery and a Saxon polychrome glass bead.

^{page 276 note 1} Medieval Archaeology, xi, 87 ff.

^{page 276 note 2} Ibid., p. 97.

^{page 277 note 1} From the fourth-century Romano-Celtic temple site in Rochford Road. I am grateful to Mr. Drury for bringing his Romano-Saxon pottery to my attention.