Little local manufactures of pottery or fibulae testify to its sporadic survival.

Such are the brooches with Celtic affinities made (as it seems) near Brough (Verterae) in Westmorland, and the New Forest urns with their curious leaf ornament (Fig.

14),[1] and above all the Castor ware from the banks of the Nen, five miles west of Peterborough.

We may briefly examine this last instance.[2] At Castor and Chesterton, on the north and south sides of the river, were two Romano-British settlements of comfortable houses, furnished in genuine Roman style.

Round them were extensive pottery works.