The Intellectual observer (1865) (14784345142)

Identifier: intellectualobse61865lond (find matches)
Title: The Intellectual observer
Year: 1862 (1860s)
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Subjects: Science
Publisher: (London : Groombridge and Sons)
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library



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y che-mical analysis, by a varnish of plumbago, which, either frombeing so long buried in the earth or from some other cause, iseasily washed off, and which varies in shade from a very deeptint to almost gray. The pottery of the darker tints is usuallythe finest in texture and the richest in ornament, while thegray or nearly gray pottery is usually thicker, coarser, andplainer. The ornaments are almost always stamped, or incised,and consist, to use the Abbes own words, of zig-zags, St.Andrews crosses, the teeth of saws, fern leaves, circles, plaitedwork, ovals, dotted work/ and a variety of other ornamentwell known from the Saxon and Carlovingian monuments.He states that they were usually placed at the feet of the skele-tons, and that they are found either empty, or filled with the 126 Anglo-Saxon Pottery. earth which had fallen into them; and he suggests that theywere placed in the graves filled with lustral water/ whichwas intended to protect the graves from evil spirits. This, too,
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NO. III.—POTTERY FEOM SWISS LACU8TBINE HABITATIONS. he seems to think was only a secondary use of the vessels them-selves, for he usually found them—those especially of light Anglo-Saxon Pottery. 127 colour—bearing unmistakeable traces of having been ex-posed to fire and smoke. From this circumstance the AbbeCochet believes that these vases had served for ordinary do-mestic purposes before they were deposited in the grave alongwith the dead. I have yet another group of pottery to introduce, whichis given in our cut No. III. It consists of earthen vessels foundin the lacustrine habitations of Switzerland, of which so much hasbeen written during the last few years. I have taken themfrom the plates illustrative of the communications of Dr. Ferdi-nand Keller to the Transactions of the Antiquarian Society ofZurich. I have seen some of this pottery strangely misappro-priated, and feel surprised that, as far as I know, nobody haspointed out its real character. The first of these exampl