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Buff ware with worn remains of white slip ; the mouth missing. Pointed type. Cf. Colchester Museum Report, 1924, Pl. VII, 2758.24, for the complete form. The small and occasionally pointed feet of these so-called "unguent-pots" are genrally taken to indicate that they were inserted in the ground to hold the small qunatity of oil necessary for a lamp (Curle, Newstead, p. 252 - cf. a pointed vessel at the Brecon Gaer - Brecon Gaer, C2). The Holt specimen has its pointed end bored to a depth of 1/4 inch, suggesting, if contemporary, that it may also have een set on some kind of pointed stand.