included issues up to the third quarter of the fourth century (Jenkins 1973;
1974). Late third- to fourth-century fine wares and mortaria are also
present at Radfield and Ospringe.
It is probable that reduced sandy wheel-thrown wares and BB2
remained the dominant wares for most, if not all, of the third century. The
necked jar, as elsewhere in Kent, is the major type in the former ware, and
both it and the burnished dog-dishes that also occur may have been made
locally. A cracked waster of a necked jar containing a ritual burial
possibly of third-century date has been recovered
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from the Upchurch Marshes (Noel Hume 1956, 164-5, no. 3), and some very
coarse sandy small necked jars were buried in the Ospringe cemetery (e.g.
Whiting et al. 1931, nos. 496 and 518). 'Swan's neck'
jars (no. 203 here: 4.IV.2) have not been recorded in this region. BB2
bead-and-flange dishes occur at Radfield, Brenley Corner and Ospringe, the
last-named including one (ibid., no. 217) associated with a late
third-century-plus Nene Valley beaker (no. 216 - cf. Howe et al. 1980,
no. 52). The presence of these dishes implies that, as in east Kent, BB2
from north-west Kent or south Essex continued to be
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