Casgliadau Arlein

Fragment of thick coarse grey ware, decorated with incised "multiple-arch" pattern. For a discussion on this type of decoration see R. A. Smith in Sumner, New Forest Pottery Sites, p. 28 f. The same forms occur on megalithic monuments in Ireland and Brittany, and it is suggested that its origin in regard to Romano-British pottery should perhaps be sought further back than the ovolo-motif of the Samian potters. In the Holt example each unit has two or three short lines added inside the innermost arch.