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The Roman Pottery of Kent
by Dr Richard J. Pollard  -  Appendix 2  page 209
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988

APPENDIX 2:

  The Fabrics: date-ranges; regions within study area; references to description and discussion

I.       Fine Wares

1.      African Red Slip:
2.      Argonne ware:
3.      Central Gaulish wares:








4.      Colchester colour-coat:




5.      East Gaulish wares:



A.
B.

C.

D.

E.

A.
B.



A.
B.


C.

D.

E.
Various, very rare; Chapter 4.V.1 Bird 1977. 
Fourth century; throughout; Chapter 4.V.1 Fulford 1977a.
Lead-glazed: pre-Flavian; throughout; Chapter 4.1.1 Greene 1973, 1978b, 1979a.
‘Lezoux’ rough-cast: pre-Flavian; high-status sites mainly, very rare; 
   Chapter 4.1.1 Greene 1973, 1979a.
Colour-coated white ware with barbotine motifs: late first to early second century; 
   rare, mainly urban, overall; Chapter 4.11.1 Greene 1978a. 
Samian: late first century — very rare, urban; second to early third century 
   —overall; Chapter 4.11.1, 111.1 Hartley 1969, 1972; Johns 1971.
‘Rhenish’ black slip: second half second century; throughout; Chapter 4.111. 1 
   Brewster 1972; Greene 1978a.
Rough-cast, pre-Flavian; Essex. Greene 1978a.
Miscellaneous, mid-second to mid-third century floruit; Kent, Essex, London
area; Chapter 4.111.1, IV.1 Hull 1963; Orton 1977b. Fig. 39 here depicts sites with the brown fabric only, as paler fabrics can be confused with contemporary Nene Valley
ware.
‘Lower Rhine’ pre-Flavian rough-cast: pre-Flavian; very high-status sites Greene 1979a.
‘Lower Rhine’ colour-coat: late first to mid/late second century (rough­cast), mid-second to early third (barbotine, rouletted); mainly urban late first, throughout in second and third; Chapter 4.11.1, 111.1. Anderson 1980 Lower Rhine Fabric 1; Greene 1978c.
Samian: early second to mid-third century; throughout in second, third­century distribution unclear; Chapter 4.111.1, IV.1 Hartley 1969; Johns 1971; Greene 1978c.
Trier ‘Rhenish’ black slip (Moselkeramik): early to mid-third century; throughout, possibly mainly urban and villas; Chapter 4.IV. 1 Greene 1978a, 1978c.
Mottled colour-coat: third to early fourth century; mainly Kent and London; Chapter 4.IV.1 Bird 1981, 1982a; Bird and Williams 1983. Fine cream-buff fabric containing large inclusions of pale-brown clay, sparse;

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