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The Roman Pottery of Kent by Dr
Richard J. Pollard
- Chapter 4 page 107
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988
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Fig. 37. First- to early second-century Alice Holt ware:
Distribution. + = absent.
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occurrence of second-century 'Canterbury' grey and oxidised wares and
third-century 'Native Coarse Ware', albeit in small numbers, on sites
east of Rochester is in some measure behind the lower coefficients
registered by the latter site in comparison to Canterbury. Degrees of
similarity between Radfield, Ospringe and Brenley Corner range from 50 per
cent to 69 per cent; the proximity of these three sites to one another,
and their common location on Watling Street, makes it surprising that
higher coefficients have not been computed. The wide range of fine wares
and
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Canterbury wares recorded at Brenley Corner in the Hadrianic-early Antonine
period differentiates this site from Radfield (50 per cent
similarity). The figures for the later period, taking account also of
Ospringe as the cemetery provides a large data base, range from 64 per cent
to 69 per cent. Variation between assemblages is more associated with the
range of forms present in commonly-occurring fabrics such as fine grey and
red wares rather than with markedly different ranges of fabrics.
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