 | 1852 - 742 pages
...Nevertheless, theRoman pottery of the Medway was of a fine and hard texture. Its colour is usually a blueblack, which was produced by baking it in the smoke of vegetable substances, in what have been designated by Mr. Artis.the discoverer of theDurobrivian potteries, smother-kilns.... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Richard J. King - 1863 - 506 pages
...in Northamptonshire (Durobrivffi). Its texture is, however, fine and hard ; and its colour usually a blue-black, " which was produced by baking it in the smoke of vegetable substances in smother-kilns." Some specimens of a red ware are also found here. The ornaments of both kinds are... | |
 | John Yeats - 1871 - 498 pages
...Castor, and the Samian. The Upchurch pottery is of a fine and hard texture, and of a blue-black colour, which was produced by baking it in the smoke of vegetable substances. The forms and patterns are very varied. The Castor pottery was of a superior quality, and more elegantly... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1877 - 398 pages
...Caistor, in Northamptonshire (Durobrivœ). Its texture is, however, fine and hard; and its colour usually a blue-black, " which was produced by baking it in the smoke of vegetable substances in smother-kilns." Some specimens of a red ware are also found here. The ornaments of both kinds are... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1885 - 590 pages
...quantity among the .Roman pottery dug up in the neighbourhood of Boulogne. The clay which constitutes the soil in the Upchurch marshes is very tenacious,...also extremely diversified. Some are ornamented with bands of half-circles, made with compasses, and from these half-circles lines are in many instances... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1902 - 590 pages
...quantity among the .Roman pottery dug up in the neighbourhood of Boulogne. The clay which constitutes the soil in the Upchurch marshes is very tenacious,...also extremely diversified. Some are ornamented with bands of half-circles, made with compasses, and from these half-circles lines are in many instances... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - 1903 - 848 pages
...quantity among the Roman pottery dug up in the neighbourhood of Boulogne. The clay which constitutes the soil in. the Upchurch Marshes is very tenacious,...by baking it in the smoke of vegetable substances. The patterns with which it was ornamented, though generally of a simple character, are also extremely... | |
 | 1852 - 692 pages
...Nevertheless, theRoman pottery of the Medway was of a fine and hard texture. Its colour is usually a blueblack, which was produced by baking it in the smoke of vegetable substance?, in what have been designated by Mr. Artis, the discoverer of theDnrobrivian potteries,... | |
 | John Yeats - 1887 - 578 pages
...Castor, and the Samian. The Upchurch pottery is of a fine and hard texture, and of a blue-black colour, which was produced by baking it in the smoke of vegetable substances. The forms and patterns are very varied. The Castor pottery was of a superior quality, and more elegantly... | |
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... the whole island with a particular class of earthenware, but which perhaps also furnished an export trade ; for we find urns and other vessels precisely similar . to the Upchurch ware in considerable quantity among the .Roman pottery dug up in the... 