by source area has not been attempted. The former method is not comparable
with the vessel rim equivalents method adopted by the present author.
Graphs of the ‘numbers of stamps/decorated sherds per
ten/five year period’ tend to show a rise from around A.D. 120, when the
Central Gaulish factories were expanding, peaking in the mid-Antonine period
(c. A.D. 150—170), and falling off thereafter to the end of the
second century, beyond which only a trickle of imports primarily from East
Gaul, but also including vessels from Raetia (the Westendorf industry; e.g.
Simpson 1970, 111, no. 15, from Canterbury), continued to flow until
the mid-third century. The quantified data accumulated by the present author
(Appendix 5) suggests that samian (taking all sources together)
generally comprises between 5 per cent and 10 per cent of Hadrianic-Severan
pottery assemblages; further study should reveal whether the figure of 23
per cent from the well at Canterbury Rosemary Lane (Bennett et al., 1982;
quantification by the present author, published in Appendix 5 of the present
volume) is abnormally high or not. The sites for which quantified
Hadrianic-Severan groups are available are mostly from urban or ‘small
town’ settlements, but the figures from two late-second to mid-third
century groups from Brenley Corner, a roadside industrial/agricultural
settlement with a shrine or small temple, accord with those from Rochester
and Springhead of similar date; further data are required from both rural
and urban sites before any patterning in the distribution of samian can be
usefully determined. The intensity of usage of East Gaulish third-century
wares on different classes and locations of site is a field of especial
interest, as the study of East Gaulish Trier ‘Rhenish’ ware by the
present author (Fig. 39) suggests that these black-slip beakers achieved an
uneven distribution restricted in the main to urban sites and some villas.
The most frequently-occurring samian forms of this period
(Hart1ey 1969) are bowls, particularly Drag. 18/31, 37,
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and the Antonine introductions Drag. 31 and Drag. 38; cups, primarily Drag.
33 (Drag. 27 being made only until the mid-second century); and mortaria.
The latter class of vessel was first introduced in the samian ware range in
the second half of the second century, and became one of the more common
mortarium fabrics on Kent sites in the late Antonine period, ushering in a
fashion for ‘fine ware’ mortaria that continued in Britain and elsewhere
into the fifth century (see below, and cf. Young 1977a).
The colour-coated wares of the period from c. A.D. 130—150
are mainly bag-shaped rough-cast beakers, sometimes folded, the production
of Central Gaulish colour-coated ovoid beakers having terminated some time
during the reign of Hadrian (A.D. 117—138) (Greene 1978a, 17). Everted-rim
globular rough-cast beakers were also produced in the lower Rhineland
(Anderson 1980, fig. 8, no. 2,), and Coichester (Hull 1963, Form 396). The
bag-beakers occur in a variety of fabrics, but are always cast with clay
particles rather than sand. The primary supplier to Kent appears to have
been the lower Rhineland, the most common fabric from which is a white ware
with dark brown, grey or black slip (Anderson 1980, 14—20, Fabric 1). Grey
and buff-orange wares from North Gaul (ibid., 28—34) are also
known, at least at Canterbury (M. Green, pers. comm.). A number of other
sources may be represented, in grey, brown, red and buff fabrics; amongst
these may he Colchester, which was producing colour-coated beakers from the
mid-second century onwards, if not earlier (Hull 1963, Forms 391, 392, 396;
Anderson 1980, 35—8). Colchester fabrics range in colour from buff
through orange to brown or grey, and are often impossible to distinguish
with a hand-lens from Nene Valley products. However, the latter source does
not appear to have produced rough-cast wares and may not have begun
production of colour-coated wares on an appreciable scale until the latter
half of the second
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