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146; Noel Hume and Noel Hume 1951, no. 1). The ?local ‘Canterbury’
BB1 (4.IV.3) has not been recognised, but may possibly have been overlooked.
The range of mortaria that may be attributed to the mid- to
late third century in this region includes a painted ‘hammer-head’
flange-rim Nene Valley buff ware vessel from Radfield, white ware and
oxidised ‘east Kent’ ‘hammer-head’ vessels with flint trituration
grit from Radfield, Brenley Corner and Ospringe, and a possible third
century Oxfordshire white ware form (Young 1977a, Type M19) from Brenley
Corner. The third to fourth century
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Type M22 (ibid.) in the same ware is present on all three sites. The
Ospringe cemetery material includes a rare example of an east Mediterranean
amphora of a type better known as ‘B iv ware’ from fifth-century
contexts in the south-west (Peacock 1977d, 298); the vessel (Whiting et
al., 1931, no. 502) was associated with a second-century glass vessel
and a second- to mid fourth-century necked bead-rim jar. This fabric of
amphora is also known from a Roman cellar of uncertain date at Burham, on
the- right bank of the Medway near the Eccles villa (Jessup 1956; the
amphora is noted in Peacock 1977d, 298).
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