Casgliadau Arlein

Good buff ware. Imitation of Drag. 38. One of three examples, one of which was found near the double flue kiln. The Samian form is said to be characteristic of the second half of the second and early part of the third centuries. It was frequently copied in coarse pottery, and the imitations are generally recognized as of third-fourth-century date (Richborough, i, 109-12, all fourth century ; Segontium, 39, c. 375 A.D. ; May, Silchester, Pl. LIV, 94). The Holt bowls, however, show a closer resemblance to the original form than do these later bowls (for example, in the bead rim) suggesting that at Holt these imitations may be as early as the end of the second century.