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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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Roman Pottery in Britain (Tyers 1996)
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This ware is discussed on p.194-195 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : PORD
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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):
- OVW WH
- Overwey White ware p.146
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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Jars, bowls and dishes in a coarse cream or yellow fabric, produced in
the Surrey-Hampshire border region (GB) and distributed in southern England
during the 4th century AD. |
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Fabric and technology
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Hard, rough, sandy fabric with irregular or hackly fracture, which
can be slightly friable; a range of colours but either orange,
through yellow/buff to brown, or shades of grey; abundant clear,
colourless or reddish quartz, with sparse coarse (or very coarse)
red iron ores, fine white mica and occasional large angular chalk
inclusions. Some variants show a pale brown slip over the outer
surface. Wheel-thrown. Often with smoke blackened surfaces.
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Forms
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Principal forms are necked jars with undercut rim and rilled surface,
flanged bowls and plain dishes. Minor forms include jugs and
moulded-rim jars.
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Form
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Portchester
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Alice Holt
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Flanged bowl
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87
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5B
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Inturned rim bowl
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89
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5C?
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Plain dish
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109
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6A
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Rilled jar
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137
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3C
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Lid
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173
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7
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Table 1. Classification of Portchester
D ware forms (after Fulford, and Lyne and Jefferies)
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Chronology
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From early 4th through to the end of the century. Forms 5-10%
of late 4th-cent. deposits in London, Surrey and west Kent.
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Source
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One source is the Overwey kilns, near Tilford (Surrey), but there
may be others.
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Distribution
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Hampshire, Surrey, the London region and Kent.
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Aliases
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'Surrey buff ware' and 'fabric C': Lyne and Jefferies 1979. Millet
1979, fabric 2. Regularly misnamed 'Porchester D' (e.g. JRPS
bibliography vols 1-5).
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Aliases
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JRPS bibliography fabric pod. Lullingstone fabric
63. Kent coarse fabric 19. Portchester fabric D.
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Bibliography
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Fulford 1975; Orton in AML 2053 1976, 35. Quantified data in
Pomel 1984. For Overwey kilns: Clark 1949, RCHM gazetteer
F627-8.
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References
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Clark 1949.
Clark, A. J., 'The Fourth-century Romano-British pottery kilns
at Overwey, Tilford', SurreyAC, 51, (1949), pp.
29-56.
Fulford 1975.
Fulford, M. G., 'The pottery' in Excavations at Portchester
Castle. Volume I: Roman, ed. B. W. Cunliffe, Reports of the
Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 32,
Society of Antiquaries, London, (1975), pp. 270-367.
Lyne and Jefferies 1979.
Lyne, M. A. B. and Jefferies, R. S., The Alice Holt/Farnham
Roman pottery industry, Research reports/Council for British
Archaeology, 30, Council for British Archaeology, London,
(1979).
Millett 1979.
Millett, M., 'The Dating of Farnham (Alice Holt) Pottery', Britannia,
10, (1979), pp. 121-37.
Pomel 1984.
Pomel, M. G., 'A study of later Roman pottery groups in Southern
Britain: fabrics, form and chronology', M. Phil. thesis, Institute
of Archaeology, University of London, (1984).
AML 2053 1976.
Williams, D. F., Angel Court, Walbrook, London. Pottery,
Ancient Monuments Laboratory Reports, 2053, English Heritage,
London, (1976).
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