Casgliadau Arlein

Large bowl of reddish-buff ware, with remains of moca-coating. The form appears to have been derived from Drag. 37. The wall is divided by heavy flat beads into zones as on the Samian vessel, the upper "plain zone" of the original having an angular profile which is one of the characteristics of the group. The small foot-ring is restored from another example. The form is not recorded from Chester, but a small fragment of rim of identical type was found in the drain of building I at Segontium. This drain contained pottery which was "mostly of early second century date" (Segontium, p. 30), and all five examples of the type at Holt have the mica-coating which apparently did not outlast that period.