During the last twenty years the study of Samian ware has made great advancesand, notwithstanding the disfavour with which the ‘intrusive fragment’ and ‘pots and pans’ are still regarded by a certain class of historian, the value of this fabric for dating purposes is now generally recognized. Weare now familiar with most of the decorative types that are characteristic of thepre-Flavian (circa A. D. 25-68), Flavian, and late Hadrianic-Antonine ages, but much remains to be learnt with regard to the ornamental detail of the intervening period, broadly speaking the first third of the second century. Although late South Gaulish ware, ornamented in the Flavian manner, continued to be imported down to about A. D. 110, a number of new decorative types, derived from Centralor from early East Gaulish potteries, began to appear late in the first century and early in the second.