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The Roman Pottery of Kent
by Dr Richard J. Pollard  -  Chapter 2  page 13
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988


Fig. 3. Sites of c. A.D. 43—100.

the use of visual techniques is a necessary prelude to the use of these techniques. The present author has adopted the approach of the Department of Urban Archaeology of the Museum of London (Orton 1977a), which involves the use of a x20 hand-lens for visual fabric characterisation. In combination with the analysis of hardness (by fingernail and penknife), and general ‘feel’ and appearance, the hand-lens technique can satisfactorily ascribe most wares to a fabric group which may subsequently be analysed petrologically, if the aims of the research demand this. The identification of fabric inclusions by the present author follows the guidelines 

laid down by the Department of Urban Archaeology (Orton 1977a, b).
   A small number of characterisation projects involving petrological analysis have been conducted by other researchers which have included material from the study region (e.g. Drury 1978, 58; Peacock 1977c, d; Williams 1977). The results of these analyses have been taken into account by the present author, but no original petrological analysis has been conducted specifically for this study. Projects on fine wares found in Roman Britain, by Anderson et al.

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