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The Roman Pottery of Kent
by Dr Richard J. Pollard  -  Chapter 4  page 107
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988


Fig. 37. First- to early second-century Alice Holt ware: Distribution. + = absent.

occurrence of second-century ‘Canterbury’ grey and oxidised wares and third-century ‘Native Coarse Ware’, albeit in small numbers, on sites east of Rochester is in some measure behind the lower coefficients registered by the latter site in comparison to Canterbury. Degrees of similarity between Radfield, Ospringe and Brenley Corner range from 50 per cent to 69 per cent; the proximity of these three sites to one another, and their common location on Watling Street, makes it surprising that higher coefficients have not been computed. The wide range of fine wares and 

Canterbury wares recorded at Brenley Corner in the Hadrianic-early Antonine period differentiates this site from Radfield (50 per cent similarity). The figures for the later period, taking account also of Ospringe as the cemetery provides a large data base, range from 64 per cent to 69 per cent. Variation between assemblages is more associated with the range of forms present in commonly-occurring fabrics such as fine grey and red wares rather than with markedly different ranges of fabrics.

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