Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society Volume 2 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ... These consisted of some remains of a very rude kind of pottery, both black and red, that had been but very imperfectly baked. A kind of bead or spindle-bob of the same rough make. Some black pottery of better form and workmanship, with some red pottery, of which were examples from Martoria, the interiors of which were studded with small bits of quartzose pebbles, the better to assist trituration, bits of red, rare, red clay tiles, and other futile objects usually met with in poorer dwellings. Lips of different vessels show the usual variety as regards form. Among the less common pottery were some bits of the Northamptonshire ware, but there was not even a brace of the so-called " Samian." EEMAINS IN IRON. Of these, different formed nails were the most frequently met with, especially the common ones used for fastening on the roof tiles, bits of clamps, staples, and the like portions also of the usual Roman type of horse, shoe--very flat and without the kalk. 57 '-'" COOKING STOVES? On removing all the debris from the floors we came upon a curious structure, which we here figure: --Our drawing shows a flask-shaped pit, narrow at the opening, and expanding at the closed end. This was built up of the oolite stones of the district, and covered at the top of this kind of wall with flat lias stones, and around this, for many feet square, was a pavement of the like stones. Some two or three of these structures were found in the centre of the floors, while others were in the angles formed of rough foundations. They were all very much alike in shape and size, about two yards long and a yard wide; their interiors were blackened or reddened from heat, and its consequent different forms of oxidation of the iron in the materials, whilst a layer of carborac...