Ch 4: mid Flavian to Trajanic Period, c. A.D. 75-120 - The Pottery of Roman Kent, page 069

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The Roman Pottery of Kent by Dr Richard J. Pollard - Chapter 4 page 69 Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988
Fig. 21. Flavian to mid- second-century fine wares: Distribution. + = absent.
contexts. Other grey sandy wares may be of Canterbury origin, but it seems possible that necked jars and jar/bowls in this type of fabric were being produced locally in this period; a kiln at Bedlam's Bottom on the Upchurch Marshes (Ocock 1966) contained a biconical bowl in this fabric (cf. Harrison 1972, no. 4), associated with a globular 'poppyhead' beaker in fine grey ware. Other sherds in the immediate vicinity included 'poppyhead' and biconical beakers and body sherds with 'compass-scribed' arc decoration in fine grey ware, suggestive of a late first- to early second-century date (the pottery is unpublished). An		unstratified, blistered necked jar or bowl with lattice decoration on the shoulder in grey sandy ware from the Slayhills Marsh north of Upchurch may also be of this date (Noel Hume 1954, fig. 1, no. 7). Pottery of west Kent and London-area origin is also rare in this region. 'Highgate Wood type' vessels have been found at Bayford near Sittingbourne in a later first- to second-century funerary assemblage (Payne 1877, 47), and at Brenley Corner in a late second to mid-third century pit. Brockley Hill flagons and mortaria have also been recovered from the area, plus a

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