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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,
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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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