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The Roman Pottery of Kent by Dr Richard J. Pollard  -  Chapter 4  page 134
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988


Fig. 48. BB2: Proportions in mid-second to mid-third-century groups.
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  		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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