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glaze, (3) celadon glazes over carved ornament, (4) speckled olive

brown glaze resembling the later " tea dust," (5) opaque dark
brown glaze, (6) speckled dark purplish brown glazes, (7) thick

greenish glaze evenly dappled with pale bluish grey spots.

Early wares found on the mixed sites, such as Kan Chou and Hsi
Yung ch'eng, w'hich were occupied down to Sung times but evidently

visited later, include carved white porcelain and creamy white
v.'are of the Vu Ting class, and several kinds of Tz'ii Chou wares,
the graffiaio, as well as the black painted. But evidence from
excavations of this kind is always open to the objection that the

ruins may have been visited later, and the broken pottery dropped

by subsequent explorers. This objection, however, cannot reason-
ably be offered to more than a small proportion of the objects found,

and these finds, though not in themselves conclusive, may be

regarded, at any rate, as valuable corroboration of existing theories.