Appendix 2 : The Fabrics - The Pottery of Roman Kent, page 211

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The Roman Pottery of Kent by Dr Richard J. Pollard - Appendix 2 page 211
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988

APPENDIX 2 - THE FABRICS: DATE-RANGES; REGIONS WITHIN STUDY AREA; REFERENCES TO DESCRIPTION AND DISCUSSION

17. 'Pevensey' ware:
18. 'Pompeian Red' wares:
19. 'Romano-Saxon' style (including Much Hadham wares):
20. South Gaulish wares:

21. Spanish colour-coat:
22. 'Staines' lead-glazed:
23. 'Streak-burnished' oxidised:
24. 'Upchurch' types:

25. West Kent red burnished:

II. Coarse Wares

1. Alice Holt-Farnham grey sandy
ware:

2. 'Alice Holt type' grey sandy ware:
3. BB1

4. BB2:

C.

A.

B.

A.

B.

C.

D.

A.

B.

Parchment: A-C all mid-third to early fifth centuries; throughout, but rare in Essex prior to mid-fourth, and rare in Sussex after mid-fourth; Chapter 4.IV.1, V.1. Young 1977a.
Fourth century; south-east Kent, Sussex, mainly east; Chapter 4.V.1. Fulford 1973a; Green 1977.
Mid-first to early third centuries; throughout; Chapter 4.1.1, III.1. Peacock 1977c.
Mainly fourth century in Kent, possibly wider date-range in Essex; Chapter 4.V.1, VI. Rodwell 1970a; Gillam 1979.
Samian: mid- to late first century; throughout, though pre-Flavian mainly high-status sites; Chapter 4.I.1. Hartley 1960; Johns 1971.
Colour-coat: pre-Flavian; very rare, high-status sites. Greene 1973, 1979a.
(as 20.B).
Late first to early second century; London area, Kent, Essex; Chapter 4.II.1. Arthur 1978.
Mid-third to mid-fourth century; Canterbury; Chapter 4.IV.1; Green 1981, forthcoming.
Reduced: late first to early fourth century in Kent, second to early third in south Essex and Weald(?); Chapter 5.II. A variety of grey, grey-brown and black wares without temper, often micaceous with a high iron ore content. Exterior surfaces (closed forms) or all surfaces (open forms) may be burnished to a high gloss, or slipped grey or black. Difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish in the hand from fine ware 10.B (above). Monaghan 1982, 1983, 1987. Fig. 41, 119-135; Fig. 42, 143, 145-146, 148-153; Fig. 43, 154; Fig. 44, 170-175.
Oxidised: late first to late third or early fourth century; Kent; Chapters 4.II.1, III.1; 5.II.. Oxidised version of 24A (above), ranging from pink through red to orange, often with a reduced core. Fig. 42, 136-137, 147; Fig. 43, 158-166; Fig. 44, 167-169.
Painted: late first to early second century; north Kent; Chapter 4.II.1. Fabric as 24B, with cream paint decoration, or cream-slipped with red paint decoration. Fig. 42, 138-142.
White-slipped: mid-first to late-second/early third century; Kent;. Chapter
4.I.1, II.1, III.1. Fig. 43, 155-157.
late third to fourth century? west Kent, mainly Darent valley; Chapter 4.V.1.

Late first to early second century, Surrey, London, north-west Kent mainly; late third to early fifth century, throughout but rare in Essex; Chapter 4.II.2, IV.2, V.2. Lyne and Jefferies 1979; Millett 1979; Orton 1977b; Tyers and Marsh 1978. Fig. 29, 97-99.
Fourth century; mid- and east Kent; Chapter 4.V.3.
. Dorset: early Hadrianic - London area, occasionally elsewhere on high-status sites; late second to mid-fourth century - throughout; Chapter 4.III.2, 4.IV, 4.V. Farrar 1973; Williams 1977. Fig. 29, 100-101.
'East Kent': very late third to mid-fourth century; east Kent; Chapter 4.IV.3.
Hadrianic to the first half of the fourth century; mainly west Kent, London

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