A Roman Cemetery Discovered at Ospringe 1920

6 8 A ROMAN CEMETERY AT OSPRINGE. calcined bones in the urn: the only case in this cemetery of one vessel being discovered complete within another. GROUP XIII. No. 44. URN or OLLA, 9-£ in. diameter, 9| in. high; hard, coarse gritty clay, light drab to black, coated with a smooth soapy slip. No. 45. ONE-HANDLED ELAGON, 6| in. diameter, about 10£ in. high; soft red clay, with traces of white slip coating; c. A.D. 100—150. The only evidence of the handle to this flagon is the impression where it was attached to the shoulder; careful search failed to find it, and other signs tend to shew that it may have been broken off before burial. GROUP XIV. No. 46. BOWL-SHAPED URN, containing calcined bones; 10^ in. diameter, 7f in. high; gritty clay with • dark grey core and drab surface. No. 47. BOWL or PLATTER, 7| in. diameter, 1-| in. high; coarse gritty clay with drab surface on a black core and with grey to black coating. No. 48. ELASK, BOTTLE or ELOWER VASE, Eorm 65 Dechel e t t e ; 5| in. diameter, 7$ in. high; sandy red-brown, clay, coated black, with burnished base and shoulder. No. 49. BELGIC ELASK or BOTTLE, 4 | in. diameter, 6£ in. high; earthy grey clay, coated black; A.D. 200 or later.* The bowl and also the two flasks in this group were lying horizontally on the rim of the urn, not around and (touching it side by side as in every other instance in this cemetery. -DI %-^isJi Museum &«Mo t° Antiquities of Roman Britain, 1022, p. 321,