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The Roman Pottery of Kent
by Dr Richard J. Pollard  -  Appendix 2  page 210
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988

APPENDIX 2:

  The Fabrics: date-ranges; regions within study area; references to description and discussion

I.       Fine Wares - continued





6.   A L'éponge ware:
7.   Gallo-Belgic:




8.   ‘Hardham’ ware:
9.   ‘Highgate Wood’ fine
         sandy grey ware:

10.   London area wares:









11. Lyon colour-coat:
12. Much Hadham:



13. Nene Valley:




14. New Forest:



15. North Gaulish wares:







16. Oxfordshire wares:



F.


A.

B.

C.




A.

B.

C.
D.

E.

F.

A.

B.

A.



B.
A.

B.

A.


B.




A.
B.
covered with dark-brown through orange to buff ‘mottled’ slip, flagons. Can be given white paint decoration.
Miscellaneous fine wares: third and fourth centuries? Mainly Kent and London? Chapter
   4.V.1 Green forthcoming. Fig. 53, 214 (Possibly Nene Valley rather than East Coast).
Fourth century; throughout; Chapter 4.V.1. Fulford 1977a; Galliou et al. 1980.
Terra Nigra: Augustan to late first century; throughout; Chapter 4.1.1 Detsicas 1977a;
   Rigby 1973, 1981.
Terra Rubra and colour-coats: Augustan to mid-first century; throughout; Chapter 4.1.1.
   Rigby 1973, 1981.
White wares: early to mid-first century; throughout; Chapter 4.1.1.
Late first to mid-second century?; Sussex, Surrey; Pollard 1983a, 269—70; Green 1976.
Early to mid-second century; mainly London area, in west Kent Trajanic­Hadrianic; 
   Chapter 4.11.2. Brown and Sheldon 1974; Orton 1977b; Tyers 1977a; Tyers and
   Marsh 1979. Fig. 29, 95—96; Fig. 42, 144.
‘Ring-and-dot beakers’, buff ware: Flavian: mainly London area; Chapter 4.11.1. 
   Green 1978b.
‘London’ grey ware: late first to early second century; London area? Chapter 4.11.1;
   Pollard 1983a, 262—73; Marsh and Tyers 1976; Marsh 1978. 
Mica-dusted ware: (as 10.B).
‘Marbled’: late first to early second century; mainly London area; Chapter 4.11.1;
    Pollard 1983a, 262—73; Marsh 1978.
‘London-Essex’ stamped: late first to early second century; London area, west Essex,
    north-west Kent; Chapter 4.11.1; Philp 1980; Rodwell 1978.
   ‘Eggshell’ ware: (as 10.D).
Pre-Flavian; throughout, mainly high-status sites; Chapter 4.1.1. Greene 1979a.
Oxidised ware: mid-third to fourth century; mainly London area, Essex, north-west
   Kent; Chapter 4.IV.1. Orton 1977b~
White-slip ware: early third century at Canterbury, one vessel, nowhere else south
   of Thames known; Chapter 4.IV.1.
Colour-coat: late second to early fifth century; throughout; Chapter 4.111.1, IV.1, V.1.
    Hartley 1960; Dannell 1973; Howe et a!. 1980; Orton 1977b. Fig. 39 here maps 
   white-ware beakers, which may include Rhinelanth imports (Fabric 5A, barbotine,
   and rouletted).
White ware, painted: late second and third centuries? throughout? Howe et al. 1980.
Colour-coat: late third and fourth centuries; Sussex, east Kent (high-status sites);
    Chapter 4.V.1. Fulford 1975a, Fabric 1; Green forthcoming.
‘Parchment’: late third to fourth century; one example in Kent, at Canterbury: Green
   forthcoming; Fulford 1975a, Fabrics 2a, 2b.
Colour-coat: late first to mid-second century; high-status sites at least; Chapter 4.11.1.
   Anderson 1980, North Gaul Fabric 1; Pollard 1981b; Green in Blockley and Day
   forthcoming.
White ware (‘Gillam 42’): late second to early fourth century? Kent and east coast
   mainly; Chapter 4.IV.1. Oxidised vessels of identical form have been found in
   Canterbury (Green forthcoming) and London (Richardson and Tyers 1984) and are
   known also on the Continent in North Gaul, mainly in the Somme basin (J. Alain, J.
   Barbieux, pers. comms.).
Red colour-coat. 
White-slip.

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