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Class : Coarse wares
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Source : Britain
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Distribution in Britain
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Roman Pottery in Britain (Tyers 1996)
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This ware is discussed on p.193-194 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : NKSH
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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. |
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Fabric and technology
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Fairly hard coarse fabric with irregular fracture; dark grey (7.5YR
4/0) or reddish-brown (2.5YR 5/4) surfaces, frequently with thick
dark grey or black core; abundant inclusions of shell 'plates'
(up to 4mm), which sometimes dissolves out leaving flat voids
in surface. Examination of shell suggests derivation from fossil
Woolwich Beds.
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Forms
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Principal form is large jar with rolled rim, with cordons and
band of coarse slashed, impressed or incised decoration at the
shoulder. Bead-rim jars and other forms also recorded in same
ware.
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Chronology
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In London, from Neronian period until mid- or late 2nd cent.
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Source
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The Kent shore of the Thames estuary, probably from the Black
Shore area, near Cliffe.
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Distribution
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Principally the Thames estuary region; common in London. A scatter
up the east coast as far as the Antonine Wall fort of Cramond
(Rae and Rae 1974, fig.21, 7; Bidwell and Speak 1994, 230).
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Aliases
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'Thames Estuary shelly jars'. Monaghan 1987, fabric H1/4h.
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Aliases
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Kent coarse fabric 23b.
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Bibliography
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Pollard 1988, fig.12, 16; Monaghan 1987, 32-3, class 3D1, 3D3;
Green 1980, 80.
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References
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Bidwell and Speak 1994.
Bidwell, P. T. and Speak, S., Excavations at South Shields
Roman Fort. Volume 1, Monograph series, 4, Society
of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne with Tyne and Wear Museums,
(1994).
Green 1980.
Green, C. M., '" The Roman pottery' in Excavations at
Billingsgate Buildings 'Triangle' Lower Thames Street, London
1974, ed. D. M. Jones, " LAMAS Special paper, 4,
LAMAS, London, (1980), pp. 39-79.
Monaghan 1987.
Monaghan, J., Upchurch and Thameside Roman pottery. A ceramic
typology for northern Kent, first to third centuries A.D.,
British archaeological reports. British series, 173, Oxford,
(1987).
Pollard 1988.
Pollard, R. J., The Roman pottery of Kent, Monograph series
of the Kent Archaeological Society, 5, Kent Archaeological
Society, Maidstone, (1988).
Rae and Rae 1974.
Rae, A. and Rae, V., 'The Roman Fort at Cramond, Edinburgh. Excavations
1954-1966', Britannia, 5, (1974), pp. 163-224.
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