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The first method was adopted by A.L. Mercer, a pottery manufacturer in USA., who, in one continuous operation made excellent imitations of the red-bodied black-topped ware, which are now in the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Oxford (Gordon Childe, 1937, pp. 43-44). In this case the desired result was obtained by keeping the pot upside down with its rim being buried in sawdust to the depth of an inch. In other words this was merely the inverted firing technique.