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imported into the latter half of the third century at least. Fine burnished
wares of north-west Kent type (Fig. 46) are less frequently encountered than
BB2, but the Ospringe cemetery does include several flasks (e.g. Whiting et
al. 1931, nos. 48, 530, 534, and 615) and bulbous tall-necked beakers (ibid.,
e.g. nos. 110 and 403) amongst which are vessels in burials dateable to
the late third or fourth century.
‘Native Coarse Ware’ occurs at Ospringe and Brenley Corner;
two cinerary urns from the former site (ibid., nos. 41 and 337), with
tooled linear decoration, were interred not earlier than the last quarter of
the third century, as they
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are associated with colour-coated ware beakers of forms originating in
that period (no. 43 in Nene Valley ware, cf. Howe et a!. 1980, no. 53;
and no. 339, an Oxfordshire C27 — Young 1977a). The absence of late
Roman grog-tempered ware from Brenley Corner may be indicative of an
introduction of this ware very late on in the third century, if not in the
fourth; the main period of domestic and industrial activity on this site
appears to have ended by the turn of the third century on the evidence of
pit fills. If this date is
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