‘honey-jar’ (Tyers and Marsh 1978, Type IIK) at
Hartlip. Alice Holt wares, and London Copthall Close type wares (excluding
the ubiquitous ovoid necked jar) are entirely absent. Wheel-thrown
sand-tempered bead-rim jars are amongst the most typical mid-Flavian to
Trajanic types.
The Jaccard correlation coefficients for the Flavian and the
Trajanic-Hadrianic periods suggest that, whilst Brenley Corner is more
similar to Canterbury (71 per cent and 63 per cent of the respective
periods, taking all types studied into account) than is Radfield (57 per
cent, 48 per cent),
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these roadside sites exhibit mutual similarity to Rochester (around 50
per cent for both sites in both periods) and to each other (53 per cent, 43
per cent). The similarity between Rochester and Canterbury in the two
periods is expressed as, successively, 42 per cent and 56 per cent. Although
significance tests for Jaccard’s coefficients have not been formulated,
intuition suggests that these figures, with the possible exception of those
of Canterbury-Brenley Corner, emphasise neither marked positive nor negative
correlation. Certain wares, such as
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