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Class : Mortaria
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Source : Britain
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Distribution in Britain
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Illustration
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| Summary |
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Mortaria manufactured at or near Gloucester (Glos/GB) during 1st century AD
with wide but thin distribution across southern Britain. |
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Fabric samples Scale (when present) in cm.
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Fabric and technology
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Hard, slightly rough fabric with irregular fracture; pale red-brown
(7.5YR 7/6) fabric with a darker margins; fine inclusions of quartz
sand and limestone set in micaceous, calcareous matrix; thin cream
or white slip with clear or milky quartz trituration.
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Forms
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Mortaria, with bead and flange.
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Stamps
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Stamped diagonally across the flange; principal potter is A. Terrentius
Ripanus.
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Chronology
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AD 55-90.
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Source
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South-west England, probably the Gloucester region.
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Distribution
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Rare, but scattered across western England and Wales, with outliers
at London and Castleford.
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Aliases
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Usk mortarium fabric 22.
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Bibliography
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Hartley in Manning 1993, 392-3, 411, 422.
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References
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Manning 1993.
Manning, W. H., The Roman pottery, Report on the excavations
at Usk, 1965-1976, University of Wales Press [for] the Board of
Celtic Studies of the University of Wales, Cardiff, (1993).
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