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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.129 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : OXMO
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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):
- OXF WH
- Oxford White ware p.174
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:
- Beckley And Stowood/Elsfield / Oxon
- Dorchester On Thames / Oxon
- Garsington / Oxon
- Holton / Oxon
- Horspath / Oxon
- Littlemore / Oxon
- Marsh Baldon / Oxon
- Marston / Oxon
- Oxford / Oxon
- Risinghirst And Sandhills / Oxon
- Sandford On Thames / Oxon
- Stanton St John / Oxon
- Woodeaton / Oxon
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 manufactred in
Oxfordshire potteries (Oxon/GB) from 2nd to 4th centuries AD;
wide distribution across midlands and southern England. |
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Fabric samples Scale (when present) in cm.
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Fabric and technology
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Hard, fairly fine-textured fabric; white, or cream, sometimes
darker (light brownish-cream, with a pink core or with a cream
to buff slip; some earlier fabrics contain abundant translucent
quartz sand but most have a little red-stained quartz and occasional
larger red and black inclusions; trituration grit invariably rounded
translucent or transparent quartz -- pink, black, white or brown.
Wheel-thrown.
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Forms
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Mortaria, principally with bead and flange, but some wall-sided.
Young defines 23 types (M1-M23) which cover the range (Young 1977,
56-79). Grooving on rim or flange common on later types (M17,
M18, M22). Simple rosette, star or cross stamps on rare later
4th cent. type, M23; occasional red-painted decoration during
4th cent.
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Stamps
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Stamps or marks used during 2nd cent. but never common; principal
named potter is Vossullus (c. AD 140-200). A pre-firing graffito
from the Churchill Hospital site records a potter named Thamesubugus
(/ 2496.4).
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Chronology
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Production from c. AD 100 until late-4th cent. The earliest forms
of mortaria, and other early Oxfordshire products such as flagons,
resemble those of the Verulamium region industry (VRMO) and production
may originate with migrants from that area.
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Source
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The Oxfordshire potteries.
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Distribution
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Second cent. distribution largely confined to Oxfordshire and
surrounding counties. Expansion from early- or mid-3rd cent.
into London basin and Kent and (during 4th.) East Anglia and south-west.
A scatter in Wales and the north.
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Aliases
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Bath fabric 2.1. Caister-on-sea fabric MOOX. Chelmsford
fabric 25. Chesterfield fabrics m1 and m2. Chichester
mortarium fabric 1. Colchester fabrics TK and TN. Dorchester
fabric 19. Exeter mortarium fabric FB1. Gestingthorpe
mortarium fabric P. Gloucester fabrics TF9A and TF9W. Great
Chesterford mortarium fabric 1. JRPS bibliography fabrics
oxm, oxwm and oxw mort. Leicester fabric MO1. Lullingstone
fabric 35. Milton Keynes fabrics 4a, 4ba and 4ag. Old
Penrith fabric 112. Kent mortarium fabrics 9a and 9b.
Sidbury fabric 33. Towcester mortarium fabric 6.
Usk mortarium fabric 15.
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Bibliography
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Young 1977; for stamps Hartley and Richards 1965, 37; Green 1983.:
RCHM gazetteer 102-4, F561-73
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References
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Green 1983.
Green, L. S., 'The Roman pottery manufacturing site at Between
Towns Road, Cowley, Oxford', Oxoniensia, 48, (1983),
pp. 1-11.
Hartley and Richards 1965.
Hartley, K. F. and Richards, E. E., 'Spectrographic analysis of
some Romano-British mortaria', BInstArch, 5, (1965),
pp. 25-44.
Young 1977.
Young, C. J., The Roman pottery industry of the Oxford region,
British archaeological reports, 43, Oxford, (1977).
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