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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
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Fabric samples Scale (when present) in cm.
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Fabric and technology
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Hard, rough fabric with very irregular fracture; colour ranges
from orange- or red-brown through to dark brown, or almost black,
but colours towards the middle of the range (2.5YR 6/6 or 2.5YR
4/4) are most common; abundant flakes of biotite mica and very
large feldspar inclusions (occasionally over 1cm) prominent in
both surface and section; some vessels unevenly smoothed towards
rim. Hand-formed.
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Forms
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Principal form is jar, with moulded rim, Cam.~262, and
there is a single tripod bowl from Sheepen, Cam.~45A.
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Chronology
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Production of this fabric (in larger, heavier forms with incised
decorated band on shoulder -- class I & II) commences before
Caesarian period, perhaps as early as 100 BC and reaches Basel
and northern Gaul at this period. The Cam.~262 form develops
by c. 15 BC, and distribution expands; no evidence for production
after early Tiberian period.
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Source
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Petrology and distribution suggests a source in Morvan, between
the Saône and the upper Loire.
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Distribution
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Wide but thin distribution across Gaul; most abundant (and highest
proportion of the assemblage) in Burgundy and upper Loire valley.
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Aliases
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For historical reasons the Cam.~262 form is known as le
type Besanon in the French literature, although it is neither
made nor found at Besançon.
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Aliases
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Bibliography
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Tyers (forthcoming) ; on the Besançon 'type' -- a conflation of
several wares: Ferdière and Ferdière 1972.
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References
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Ferdière and Ferdière 1972.
Ferdière, A. and Ferdière, M., 'Introduction à l'etude d'un type
céramique: Les urnes à bord mouluré Gallo-Romaines précoces',
RAE, 22, (1972), pp. 77-88.
Tyers (forthcoming).
Tyers, P. A., 'Central Gaulish coarse wares', forthcoming.
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