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are the outlines so traced: they are numbered to correspond with the order in which they are described.
The remaining items from this group are:-
Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Probably Yuan: piece of the shoulder of a jar with the base of a handle; glazed gray, roughly made.
Probably early Ming, 14th to 15th century; two sherds with worn opalescent blue and white glaze, each of them part of the rounded lips of thick bowls.
Ming, 16th century: three pieces, a bowl, a sherd, and a plate, with blue underglaze designs.
19th century: small broken porcelain wine cup, light blue glaze. This piece could well date back to the days of quarrying on the hill: it looks newer and less worn than any other piece, and was not submitted to the Museum.
3. Pottery fragments from the exposed surface of a cutting through the south end of the earthwork, where it faces east.
These fragments, numbering 13, were also submitted to the British Museum experts, who reported as follows:
'We are agreed that these are of Six Dynasties and T'ang Dynasty date. The sherd with the impressed designs is not parallel with those found on Lamma Island,* and
The reference is to Father Finn's discoveries pre-war. See Archaeological Finds on Lamma Island (*) near Hong Kong, Ricci Publications, Ricci Hall, University of Hong Kong, 1958 reprinted from The Hong Kong Naturalist between 1933-36 and edited by T. F. Ryan, S.J.
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are the outlines so traced: they are numbered to corre- spond with the order in which they are described.
The remaining items from this group are:-
Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Probably Yuan: piece of the shoulder of a jar with the base of a handle; glazed gray, roughly made.
Probably early Ming, 14th to 15th century; two sherds with worn opalescent blue and white glaze, each of them part of the rounded lips of thick bowls.
Ming, 16th century: three pieces, a bowl, a sherd, and a plate, with blue underglaze designs.
19th century: small broken porcelain wine cup, light blue glaze. This piece could well date back to the days of quarrying on the hill: it looks newer and less worn than any other piece, and was not submitted to the Museum. 3. Pottery fragments from the exposed surface of a cutting through the south end of the earthwork, where it faces east.
These fragments, numbering 13, were also submitted to the British Museum experts, who reported as follows:
'We are agreed that these are of Six Dynasties and T'ang Dynasty date. The sherd with the impressed designs is not parallel with those found on Lamma Island,* and
The reference is to Father Finn's discoveries pre-war. See Archae- logical Finds on Lamma Island (*) near Hong Kong, Ricci Publications, Ricci Hall, University of Hong Kong, 1958 reprinted from The Hong Kong Naturalist between 1933-36 and edited by T. F. Ryan, S.J.
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