Ch 4: Harianic to Severan A.D. 120-220 - The Pottery of Roman Kent, page 103

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The Roman Pottery of Kent by Dr Richard J. Pollard - Chapter 4 page 103 Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988
Fig. 33. Early Romano-British stamped ware (Rodwell 1978, Groups 2A and 2C): Distribution. + = absent.
coarse wares. These forms were also represented in the early third-century cellar fill at Faversham (Philp 1968, fig. 26). The marked increase in usage of BB2 observed at Canterbury is paralleled in the central-northern region, where decorated BB2 dishes, though present (Fig. 25), are rare in comparison to the abundance of plain forms. East Kent high-fired grog-tempered jars are present at Brenley Corner and Ospringe (e.g. Whiting et al. 1931, no. 163) but apparently only in small quantities. However, there are several large 'storage' jars used as cinerary urns of third-century date,		possibly interred as early as the first half of that century, at Ospringe (e.g. no. 178 here). These are generally facet-burnished and decorated with linear and stick-stabbed motifs and do not exhibit the characteristics typical of east Kent 'Native Coarse Ware' (see above). Exotic coarse wares, apart from mortaria and amphorae, of the Hadrianic-Severan period are extremely rare in this region. A single 'Patch Grove' ware storage jar (no. 21 here) was recovered from the Ospringe cemetery, and a 'Thames Estuary' shelly storage jar was

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