Lincoln.
A very interesting discovery of potter’s moulds, for heads for impressing on earthenware, was made a few years back in the parish of St. Mary-le-Wigford, Lincoln. The discovery consisted, according to the last edition of Marryat (edited by my friend Mrs. Pallisser) where the relics are described and carefully engraved, of the remains of a potter’s kiln with numerous fragments of glazed pottery, among which was one piece bearing the head impressed from one of these moulds. One of them, engraved in Marryat’s highly interesting volume, represents a male head, probably that of Edward III., both beard and hair curled at side as on the coins of that monarch and the first and second Edwards, and the other the head of a lady, probably Queen Philippa, with the characteristic square-topped reticulated head-dress. These moulds are in the Trollope collection. A potter’s mould of a head, of the Romano-British period, found by myself at Headington, is in my possession, and is engraved in Vol. I., Figs. 166, 167.