POTSHERD : Atlas of Roman Pottery
Class: Coarse wares
Coarse wares ...
Roman coarse pottery
Buckman and Newmarch, Illustrations of the Remains of Roman Art in Cirencester, London 1850.
Introduction
Coarse wares, for cooking or food preparation or storage, are the most common wares on most sites. In most cases they will be from local sources but some coarse wares are transported over long distances.

Wares of class Coarse wares
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 Ware   Source(s)  Summary Dating
(Usually shows date in Britain)
Alice Holt/Farnham grey wares Britain
Grey sandy coarse wares produced at several sites in the area of Alice Holt Forest (Hants/GB) and Farnham (Surrey/GB), from the 1st to the 4th centuries AD, and widely distributed across southern England.
Black-burnished 2 Britain
Wheel-thrown grey or black sand-tempred wares, typically everted-rim jars with burnished lattice decoration, bead-rim and plain dishes. Produced at sites around the Thames estuary (Kent/GB and Essex/GB)and distributed in south-east England and in northern Britain during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
Central Gaulish coarse micaceous ware Gaul
Jars and bowls in coarse micaceous red-brown or dark-brown wares abundantly tempered with crushed granite, produced in Central France and with wide but thin distribution across central and northern Gaul and southern Britain during 1st century BC and early 1st century AD.
Crambeck wares Britain
Grey wares, white wares and red-slipped produced near Crambeck (Yorkshire/GB) and distributed across northern Britain during the 4th century AD.
Dales ware and Dales-type ware Britain
Jars in coarse shell-tempered wares produced in the Lincolnshire and widely distributed across northern Britain during the 3rd and 4th centuries AD.
Derbyshire ware Britain
Moulded-rim jars in hard grey wares produced in Derbyshire and distributed across central and northern Britain during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
Late Roman grog-tempered wares Britain
Coarse textured hand-formed grog-tempered jars, bowls and dishes produced in south-east England during the 3rd and 4th centuries AD.
Late Roman Mayen ware Germany
Jars, jugs and bowls in a hard coarse ware produced in the Eifel region (Rheinland-Pfalz/DE) and widely distributed in north-east Gaul, the lower Rhine and south-east Britain during the 3rd and 4th centuries AD.
Malvernian coarse wares Britain
Cooking pots in coarse grey or black wares produced in the Malvern Hills region (Hereford & Worcs/GB) and distibuted in western Britain during the 2nd to 4th centuries AD.
North Gaulish grey wares Gaul
Jars, beakers, jugs and bowls in grey wares produced in the Picardy, Nord and Pas-de-Calais (FR) and distributed across northern Gaul and south and east England during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
North Kent shell-tempered storage jars Britain
Large storage jars in coarse shell-tempered fabrics produced in northern Kent (GB) and distributed in south-east England and along the east coast during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
Oxfordshire parchment ware Britain
Bowls and jars in pale granular wares, often with darker painted decoration, produced in the Oxfordshire potteries (Oxon/GB) and distributed across southern England during the 3rd and 4th centuries AD.
Pompeian-Red ware fabric 1 Italy
Platters (and accompanying lids) in a coarse red-brown fabric tempered with black sand, with a red-slip on the inner surface, produced in Campania (IT) and widely distributed around the Mediterranean and across the north-west provinces during the 1st century AD.
Pompeian-Red ware fabric 2 Italy
Platters (and accompanying lids) in a coarse micaceous ware with red-slipped internal surface, distributed around the Mediterranean and across the north-west provinces during the 1st century AD.
Pompeian-Red ware fabric 3 Gaul
Platters (and accompanying lids) in a fine-textured brown micaceous fabric with red-slipped internal surface, produced in Central Gaul (FR) and widely distributed across Gaul and Britain during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
Portchester fabric D ware Britain
Jars, bowls and dishes in a coarse cream or yellow fabric, produced in the Surrey-Hampshire border region (GB) and distributed in southern England during the 4th century AD.
Rossington Bridge Black-burnished ware Britain
Jars and dishes in a hard grey sandy fabric produced at Rossington Bridge (nr Doncaster, Yorkshire/GB) with limited distribution in northern Britain during the 2nd century AD.
Savernake-type grey wares Britain
Jars, bowls and dishes in a coarse grey ware produced at several sites in Wiltshire (GB) during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
Severn Valley wares Britain
A range of orange or red-brown wares produced along the middle Severn valley and distributed across western Britain (and sparsely in northern Britain) from 2nd to 4th centuries AD.
Soft pink grog-tempered wares Britain
A coarse lumpy pink or orange grog-tempered ware produced in central England during the 2nd to 4th centuries AD.
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