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The Roman Pottery of Kent
by Dr Richard J. Pollard  -  Chapter 4  page 104
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988


Fig. 34. Much Hadham oxidised ware: Distribution. + = absent.

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 

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white ware with flint trituration grit (1981, particularly no. 383 form) at Brenley Corner and Ospringe (both unpublished, the former in a pit fill of the late second to mid-third century), and possibly the grooved ‘hammer-heads’ (but cf.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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