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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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Roman Pottery in Britain (Tyers 1996)
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This ware is discussed on p.127-129 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : NVMO
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National Roman Fabric Reference Collection (Tomber & Dore 1998)
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Cross-reference from this group to fabric descriptions published in
The National Roman Fabric Reference Collection (1998):
- LNV WH
- Lower Nene Valley White ware p.119
Illustrations of these fabrics are available only in the printed catalogue: R. Tomber & J. Dore,
The national Roman fabric reference collection. A handbook
Museum of London Archaeology Service, London. MOLAS monograph 2. (1998). |
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The Pottery kilns of Roman Britain (Swan 1984)
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This fabric was produced at kiln sites at these locations:
- Sibson Cum Stibbington / Hunts
Display more details of these sites.Data summarized from V. G. Swan The pottery kilns of Roman Britain (HMSO, London, 1984, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Supplementary Series 5). |
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Mortaria manufactured in the Nene Valley potteries (Hunts/GB) from 2nd
to 4th centuries AD; wide distribution in eastern England. |
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Fabric and technology
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Hard, off-white fabric with light grey or pink core, often a brown
or yellowish slip; inclusions of fine red-brown and black particles
and variable amounts of quartz. Gritted with abundant crushed
dark grey or black iron silicate slag. Wheel-thrown.
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Forms
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Mortaria, with flange and high bead or reeded rim.
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Stamps
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During the 2nd cent. there are a few named potters, but stamping
ceases by c. AD 180. Distribution on .
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Potter
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Date
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CAMULACUS iii
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130-160
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CUNOARDA
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130-180
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DOBALLUS
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140-180
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<- MHMO?
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VEDIACUS
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140-180
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VIATOR
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110-145
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Table 1. Principal Nene valley mortarium
potters, AD 110-180
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Chronology
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Earliest mortaria date to c. AD 110, and production continues
into 4th cent.
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Source
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The Castor-Stibbington area in the lower Nene Valley. The stamps
of Cunoarda read CUNOARDA [FECIT] VICO DUROBRI[VIS] and a painted
inscription on another mortarium reads SENNIANVS DUROBRIVIS VRI[..]
(/ 2495.1; Howe et al. 1980, 3).
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Distribution
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Eastern England, as far as the northern frontier, but abundant
in the east Midlands and a major source for East Anglia during
3rd-4th cent (Darling 1993, 202-3).
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Aliases
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Chelmsford fabric 24. Chesterfield fabric m17. Colchester
fabrics TE and TF. Gestingthorpe mortarium fabrics K-L.
Great Chesterford mortarium fabrics 16 and 17. JRPS
bibliography fabric nvm. Leicester fabric MO6. Lullingstone
fabric 42. Milton Keynes fabric 4f. Kent mortarium
fabric 8. Towcester mortarium fabric 8b.
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Bibliography
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RCHM gazetteer 95-7, F366-86; production summarized in
Howe et al. 1980.
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References
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Darling 1993.
Darling, M. J., Caister-on-Sea Excavations by Charles Green,
1951-55, EAA, 60, (1993).
Howe et al. 1980.
Howe, M. D., Perrin, J. R. and Mackreth, D. F., Roman pottery
from the Nene Valley: a guide, Occasional paper, 2,
Peterborough City Museum and Art Gallery, Peterborough, (1980).
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