in the inner part of the substance, which has apparently been coloured a rich red by some paint or glaze. Similar painted ware, a piece of a mortarium, is in Reading Museum, from Silchester.

(3) Five fragments of the very hard purplish brown (grey in the substance) New Forest ware, two of them belonging to an upright vase with the usual indented sides, the projections ornamented with lines and dots in conspicuous white paint. (4) One fragment of a mortarium, of ware red inside but coloured stone-colour on the surface.

(4) Two bits of brick-coloured bowls, which have been coloured a better red on the surface. (5) Two fragments of the lid of a vessel like an old-fashioned teapot lid. They are closely covered with an impressed ornament difficult to describe. At first I thought they were modern, but Mr. Mill Stephenson, who has had so much experience at Silchester, saw them and pronounced them to be, in his opinion, Roman. Since then I have seen two or three fragments in the Reading Museum from Silchester, covered with this same "engine-turned" ornament, and very similar to these. In the York Museum are a good many fragments of red ware, unglazed, and of black ware, having this same ornament, and one fragment having the same metallic glaze.

In Vol. III., Plate CLXXXVII., fig. 5, of his Excavations, Gen. Pitt Rivers figures a fragment from Woodyates settlement with apparently exactly the same pattern, of which he says "I have not been able to find any example of this ornamentation in other works, but similar patterns appear recently to have been found at Silchester." Again, in Vol. II., Plate CLXXIX., fig. 3, is shown a fragment with somewhat similar ornament, of which he says "The interior has a lustre on the surface which gives it the appearance of having been sized." The Box specimens have this curious dark bluish metallic lustre, the ware itself in the inside being greyish buff.

Another fragment of buff ware coloured dull reddish brown on the surface has a more wavy ornament of the same character,

and also has something of the lustre on the surface.

A very

small bit of the same ware has a scale or basket-work ornament on it. A fragment very like this is in the Silchester collection at Reading.

(6) A few pieces of apparently somewhat globular bowls or jars with out-turned rims, of grey-brown ware, with small specks of mica on the surface.

(7) Neck and part of body of a globular-shaped jug with handle, of hard grey ware, a band of ornament composed of curls lightly marked on the wet clay with a blunt instrument running round the upper part of the body.

(8) A number of rims of basin- or bowl-shaped vessels with straight sides; they have projecting rims, above which the edge rises up. Gen. Pitt Rivers gives a long series of sections of such vessels, and a cut of a perfect one (p. 169), from the Romano-British villages of Rotherley and Woodcuts, in Vol. II. Plate CXVI., of his Excavations. Some of the rims suggest that a cover fitted over them, or perhaps the overlapping rims were for the same purpose as the broader flanges of No. 2. They are of brownish black thick ware and some of them still retain under the rims the black and soot which collected on them when used for cooking.

A number of fragments also occurred of the rims and bottoms of flat upright-edged saucers of this same brown or black ware, ornamented with crossed lines and scrolls marked on the wet clay with a blunt instrument. Gen. Pitt Rivers gives an example from Woodcuts in Excavations, Vol. I., Plate XXXIV., fig. 1, where he suggests that these saucers may perhaps have been used as lids for the basin-shaped vessels with rims. A good deal of this black ware, especially in the case of the saucers, has a kind of polish on the surface, as if it had been tooled over.

Of the same ware, again, are a number of fragments of pots, vases, or jars, all of much the same shape1-a small

A precisely similar pot, from Woodyates, is figured in Gen. Pitt Rivers' Excavations, Vol. I., Plate XXXII., fig. 5.

bottom swelling out into a larger body which has round it a band of simple crossed lines slightly marked on the wet clay narrowing somewhat to the wide mouth, which has a wide everted rim. These vessels, also, are some of them blackened with soot.

More than three-quarters of all the pottery found was of this common black ware, and belonged to vessels of the three above-named shapes.

(9) One fragment of a thin ware, red in substance, but black on the surface, containing minute grains of mica throughout its substance, apparently part of a small bowl.

(9a) Another fragment of a still smaller and thinner bowl also has specks of mica. It is black on the surface and grey-brown in the substance.

(10). A very hard ware, grey in the substance and reddishyellow on the surface, furnished several fragments. It seems to be of a ware similar to fragments found in a Romano-British dwelling-pit at Corton, in Hilmarton, and also by Gen. Pitt Rivers in the Rushmore villages.

(11) A few pieces of coarse yellow and green glazed ware were doubtless mediæval.

Bones. Hardly any bones were found, except the two leg bones of a cock with very large spurs, which were found amongst the floor debris, and are pretty certainly of Roman age.

Metal Objects. Absolutely the only objects in metal discovered

were:

(A) The corroded and decomposed fragments of a pewter or

white metal jug found in Hypocaust X. of which there is just enough to show that it had a small long neck, and a handle, 63in. in length, and a body tapering to a small base, 34in. in diameter. A similar vessel, also in a fragmentary condition, is in Reading Museum, from Silchester; and there also examples in other museums.

(B) Also in this hypocaust X, amongst the stone pillars was

found an iron object, much corroded and with gravel adhering to it, which looks like the coulter of a plough (?) There is nothing in its position to prove its age, the upper floor of the hypocaust was entirely broken in. It may be Roman, or it

may not.

Not a single coin turned up during our excavations, but Mr. Hardy has one of Valens found on the site.

[This paper will also be printed in the Archæological Journal.]

Notes on Durrington.

By Rev. C. S. RUDDLE.

(For previous paper see vol. xxxi., pp. 331.)

EAST-END MANOR.

HE East-end Manor is small, being little over 480 acres, and for centuries was joined to a very much smaller manor-Knighton, in Figheldean parish; the lords of both being the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. In some respects it was subordinate to the West-end Manor: for the lessee of the greater manor claimed that his flock had a right to feed all the wheat stubble on the East-end Manor from old Michaelmas to Martinmas tide (22nd Nov.) yearly; and in the second barley field from Luke's tide (Oct. 29th) to Martin's tide.

The earliest lease in existence is in the muniment room of Salisbury Cathedral. It is one granted to Wm. Grene,1 of Heyle (Heale, in the parish of Woodford), in 1548, of the Manor or

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Wm. Grene bought half the Manor of Stanlynch in 34 Henry VIII.; and probably gave up Heale to Gerard Errington, who married his daughter Margaret, and died at Heale, 1596.

Lordshyppe, Messuage, lands, heaths, and marshes for 99 years: paying £10 10s. 1d. for Duryngton; £5 for Knighton: Grene to discharge all duties to the king.

The description implies the old heathy condition of the down, and the marshes that preceded the water meadows.

In the Durrington register there is a memorandum signed by William White, Minister of Durrington:

"The viii day of February 1605 after the [calendar] of the Church of England, but by the Almen [ac] 1606 was the possession of Knighton and Durrington given up by Robert Martin' farmer of the same unto Philipp Poore of the same Durrington gentelman to the use of Mr. Edward Poore his son in the presence of Henry Kingsbirie gent, Thomas Coopper of Knighton, and Thomas Martin wth others."

In 1639 Edward Poore surrendered the lease of 99 years granted to Grene, and paying £150 he obtained a lease for 21 years on the same conditions.

A survey of the manor in 1649 by the Parliamentary Commissioners, Walter Foy, Jo. Squibb, Chr. Weare, and Geo. Fairley, shows its condition in detail. They report that eleven years are unexpired of the lease: that there is a court leet: and that the fines are arbitrary. The lord, or lessee for the time being, may fill up all copyhold estates during his term. The tenants are stated as follows:

William Reade, his wife, and Hannah Reade. Bad meadow and a little island, eight acres, now in possession of lessee.

This holding can be identified: it was on the Avon near Milston Mill, just after the bend of the river towards Bulford.

Philip Burges, by lease 11 Charles I., late in the tenure of Joan Lewis.

No extent is given. It was probably a cottage and garden in the village which had the name of Burgess'. But none of the name remain here.

Richard Graly, one-third of a cottage.

Thos. Bennett als. Hooper, lease 7 James: cottage and land. Jeffery Glasse, and Hen. and Nic. Howard four acres.

There were tenants named Martin in Henry Eighth's reign and onward.