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of slender private resources and personal endurance. This stratum of the finds is evident in one of the pictures showing a man walking along in the act of examining the layer where things are usually found (Plate 32, figure 5.) Another of the pictures is a group taken just after a find; the two work- men are on the top field-fevel, the other two (on the right) are standing down the slope on the very find-spot (Plate 32, figure 2).
After this description of the site, there comes the actual classification of the finds. These will be taken in groups starting with the pottery which contains several types distinguished by obvious features of shape or technique; after that will come the metal and the stone objects. It must be borne in mind that the arrangement is not in any sense a suggestion of the chrono- logical sequence but rather a preparation for the final articles in which some attempts at a summing up of the evidence will be made.
If any readers can supplement the remarks by further information as to similar finds in Hong Kong or elsewhere, the help afforded will be most welcome.
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POTTERY
1. Jar shaped vases.
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FINDS.
The largest amount of fragments and the least amount of anything like complete vessels consist of pieces that were pots of a type that a Chinese would call oong". Figure 1, gives a generalised restoration of the type. The characteristics are, a perfectly round mouth surrounded by a collar- neck which stands up at right angles or making an acute angle with a round- ed shoulder the body is globular and usually seems to have had no foot except for a somewhat flatter surface at the very bottom: it would seem from the difference of colour and from other traces that the pots were stacked on one another in the kiln, so that the bottom of the upper one rested on the mouth of the lower and thus a kind of unevenness of colouring often marks fragments of bottoms in a broad disk; occasionally there is a distinct trace of
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Figure 1.
Generalized type of large pots: compare with Plate 34 figure 1 of recently discovered specimen: Above, old characters of (second to ?) first millennium B.C., depicting similar pots.
The average dimensions
adhesion (almost vitrification) at the line of contacts. are about 10 inches in height from bottom to lip; collar by itself about one
December 1932.
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