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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second-century date (the pottery is unpublished).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
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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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