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samian and white-slip fine wares, are common to all, or to three out of the
four, sites. Others occur only on western or eastern members of this group
of sites. Assemblages that include material of this period suggest that the
region of central-northern Kent was on the fringes of both west Kent and
east Kent ‘style zones’, incorporating elements of the pottery of both
regions without being dominated by either. This situation is underlined by
the distribution of flagons current in the Flavian-Trajanic period (Fig.
22), and of mortaria; both Brockley Hill and Hartley Group 2 vessels have
been found at Radfield, and mortaria in the former
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ware also occur at Hartlip and Brenley Corner. White ware mortaria
appropriate to this period occur at Brenley Corner. As elsewhere, the
mortaria, and also the amphorae, appear to have been utilised on both villas
and roadside settlements. It should be recognised, however, that amphorae
were not necessarily imported to the site at which they were deposited for
the contents that they carried when shipped out from their source. It is
possible that certain classes of site received only empty amphorae for
general use, or amphorae refilled with a second commodity at some dispersal
point.
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