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 326 GAULISH FORTRESSES ON THE COAST OF BRITTANY. Similar v«ises have been found in the dolmens of the Morbihan and of Finisteie. Some have a sjiheroidal form ■Nvith the rims furnished with a small moulding, the form of uhich appears to bear a resemblance to Roman pottery. Their ornamentation consists of chevrons and parallel lines, sometimes se|)arated by rows of points. Two fragments have impressions of a circular form, which seem to have been etlected by a round tool with a tlat end ini})ressed on the soft clay. (3.) Thick vases, of large dimensions, of red clay, in which occur, instead of the silicious particles, small portions of sc/iiste tahjucH.v presenting numerous white specks. The material is soft, greasy to the touch, easily scratched with the nails, and cut with a knife as easily as soap. The very numerous fragments of this kind seem to have been portions of large llat-bottomcd shallow bowls and spheroidal-shaped vases, very similar to the vessels still commonly used in many communes of Finistere for carrying milk to the towns. The rims of both kinds of vases have projecting flat lips, the ujiper face of which is hollowed out into one or two deep grooves, which <io all round the ed<re. Their ornamentation consists of spirals, or concentric circles, and of series of parallel lines cut obliquely by other lines. A kind of dolitiin made of the same clay, l.'J millimetres in thickness, an^l which, in its entire state, must have had its greatest diameter measuring 45 centimetres, is ornamented with a series of impressions measuring 25 millimetres across, representing wheels of eight spokes, reminding one of the bion/e Gaulish wheels which are found frequently in France.'-' (See fig. (J.) The edge is also li(jlluwed out by a deej) groove or chamiel, and fur- nished with an uj)right handle, ])ierced with a small hole a centimetre in diameter. Lastly, there is a very large vase, the exact form of which it is not ea.sy to determine from its remaining fragments, which have projecting ribs or mouldings aijout the size of a little finger of ordinary dinieiisi(»ns. Those ribs occur only in the exterior (jf tin; vessel. 'J'his vase is of white clay, and is totally dissimilai- from aiiv of the jticcciling ones. Tlicse fragments of pottery were Ibunil in all the houses that were exc^avated, and especially in (' ; and, although nothing ' NiiiiicroiiMoxatii|>l<'Jtli:tve l>ccii n^nruil in tlio An llIl.'(lln^i.l (','kiiil>io iihiH.