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The Roman Pottery of Kent by Dr Richard J. Pollard  -  Chapter 4  page 132
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988


Fig. 46. Third-century Cliffe peninsula/Mucking-south Essex burnished wares: Distribution. + = absent.
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 		 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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