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Large bowl of red ware (? with red slip). Reeded rim with applied roll-handles and foot demarcated by internal and external offsets. Eighteen examples of the type are preserved. Of these, ten have plain rims, the other eight being reeded. The base in some cases also is of the plain "cut-away" type, while one or two examples like that figured show a series of concentric grooves on the underside. Wasters of this type were frequently used as saggars for the protection of glazed vessels in the kiln. The form belongs to the late first-early second centuries. Similar forms at Caerleon range from the Flavian to Hadrianic periods (Caerleon Ampitheatre, p. 182, 44-5 ; Caerleon, i, 129). At Chester it has been found in an undated deposit (Newstead, Infirmary Field, i, p. 162, x. 63) and a parallel form though of different technique and origin is dated by the associated Samian to the late Flavian period (Newstead, Deanery Field, ii, p.28, 17).