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The Roman Pottery of Kent by Dr Richard J. Pollard  -  Chapter 4  page 102
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988


Fig. 32. 'Highgate Wood' fine grey ware: Distribution. + = absent.
origin are also notably rare in this region, (for example there are two vessels only from two large pit groups of late second- to mid third-century date at Brenley Corner, comprising some 4 per cent of contemporary jars), and it would seem unlikely that the plain jars of west Kent were imported, if BB2 jars were not. The sandy wares are usually somewhat finer than Canterbury wares, although there is some overlap. The bead-rim jars (no. 90 here) and decorated necked bowls (Whiting et al. 1931, several examples including nos. 420, 512, and 576) provide a typological link with west Kent wares, but the region was  on the fringe of the main distribution area for the late second to mid-third century BB2 and burnished wares of west Kent (Figs. 45-48). BB2 nevertheless comprises 22 per cent of pottery from one of the Brenley Corner pits referred to above; the other contained less than 2 per cent BB2, but also included a large first- to mid second-century residual element. The former pit included a few sherds of late first to second century Canterbury grey and oxidised wares, but roll-rim necked jars with angular or rounded rims comprised some 30 per cent, and BB2 plain dishes 27 per cent, of

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