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A DISCOVERY of considerable interest to archaeologists has been made at Canterbury in the course of excavations for an A.R.P. Control Centre at the rear of the municipal buildings on the Dane John. A Roman pottery kiln has been found in the natural clay at a depth of about seven feet below the present ground level. Associated with the kiln were a number of potsherds, together with some forty to fifty of the tops of jars and other vessels in a variety of shapes and sizes. Among fragments of Belgic and Samian ware is a base which bears the name of the potter, ‘Pavlini’. A trench running across the excavation, and extending some four to five feet into the clay, is, it is presumed, the source of the clay from which pots were made. A.R.P. excavation is also responsible for a find, in certain respects of even greater interest, which is reported from Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire (The Times, May 15). Here human skeletons have been found in association with a number of objects, which are held to be Anglo-Saxon of the fifth or sixth century A.D. They have been examined by Mr. T. Sheppard, of the Hull Municipal Museum. Among the associated antiquities are a large hanging bowl of bronze, with three escutcheons for attachment, probably originally used in the Saxon church of St. Peter, a cylindrical bronze box, with a lid highly decorated, used by Saxon women for needle and thread and having an attachment for suspension to the waist, and a large decorated gold bead. The find of the bronze bowl is of particular interest, as it belongs, presumably, to a class of antiquity which has been made the subject of study by Mr. T. D. Kendrick of the British Museum, and has been shown by him to be of British (Celtic) derivation.
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Archæology and A.R.P. Nature 143, 848 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143848b0
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