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Class : Coarse wares
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Source : Britain
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Distribution in Britain
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Illustration
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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 PA
- Oxford Parchment 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:
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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Bowls and jars in pale granular wares, often with darker painted
decoration, produced in the Oxfordshire potteries (Oxon/GB) and
distributed across southern England during the 3rd and 4th centuries
AD. |
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Fabric samples Scale (when present) in cm.
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Fabric and technology
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Hard, sandy fabric with smoothed surface; sparse red and black
inclusions; generally white with pink core (occasionally pink
or orange-pink throughout); decorated with red-brown paint, sometimes
fired dark grey. Wheel-thrown.
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Forms
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Young illustrates a range of flagons, jars, bowls and beakers
in the ware (P1-P40). Most have only local significance and principal
type with wide distribution is P24 -- a wide-mouthed carinated
bowl, decorated with horizontal painted bands on the exterior
and more complex motifs (crosses, swags, circles) on the interior.
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Chronology
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AD 240-400.
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Source
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The Oxfordshire industry.
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Distribution
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Across central England.
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Aliases
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Bath fabric 7.1. Caister-on-sea fabric OXPA-7. Chelmsford
fabric 30. Colchester fabric MQ. Gloucester fabric
TF1A. JRPS bibliography fabric oxp. Lullingstone
fabric 34. Milton Keynes fabric 5. Kent fine fabric
16c. Towcester fabric 43.
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Bibliography
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Young 1977, 80-92.
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References
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Young 1977.
Young, C. J., The Roman pottery industry of the Oxford region,
British archaeological reports, 43, Oxford, (1977).
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