incorporated in the Faversham cellar fill (Philp 1968, no. 273). BB1
dishes from one of the Brenley Corner pits could be of mid-third rather
than Severan date, as may a jar from Ospringe (Whiting et al. 1931,
no. 402; Gillam 1970, Type 132). A BB1 mug from the latter site (ibid.,
no. 550; Gillam 1970, Type 65) is from a burial group of
possible Severan date, however.
Mortaria of the Hadrianic to Severan period include oxidised
and white ware hook-flange types with ‘herringbone’ stamps. and ‘hammer-head’
near-vertical flanges, amongst which are grooved-flange types, in
white
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ware and oxidised white-slip ‘East Kent’ ware (cf. Gillam 1970, Types
273 and 282). A Canterbury or east Kent source may be proposed for most of
these, except perhaps the grooved ‘hammer-heads’. Exotic mortaria
include Hartley’s ‘Southern Britain/Continent’ white ware with flint
trituration grit (1981, particularly no. 383 form) at Brenley Corner and
Ospringe (both unpublished, the former in a pit fill of the late second to
mid-third century), and possibly the grooved ‘hammer-heads’ (but cf. ibid.,
no. 386, for which a Kent source is proposed).
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