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The Roman Pottery of Kent by Dr Richard J. Pollard  -  Chapter 4  page 133
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988


Fig. 47. BB2 everted-rim jars (all periods): Distribution. + = absent.
correct, it would correlate with west Kent dating rather than the slightly earlier period of introduction deduced at Canterbury (see above). The hypothesis of a temporal diffusion of this ware or the concept of its production is attractive, but at present there is too little evidence to put this model to the test.
   BB1 from Dorset may have been imported to the central northern region from the late third century onwards as part of the major expansion of that industry's trade in the south-east discussed above (4.IV.3), but there is insufficient data to allow quantitative judgements to be made. Four of the 		 six BB1 vessels in the Ospringe cemetery (Whiting et al. 1931, nos. 402, 462, 473, and 550) may be of third-century date, including a mug dated to c. A.D. 140-300 in the north (Gillam 1970, Type 65), and a jar (ibid., Type 146) of late third-century origin. BB1 is also present at Brenley Corner, where the lack of diagnostic fourth-century wares suggests that the vessel concerned (ibid., Type 329) was imported in the late second to third century. A second jar of late third-century-plus form has been recovered from the Upchurch Marshes (ibid., Type

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