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Class : Fine wares
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Source : Gaul
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Distribution in Britain
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Illustration
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Source of ware
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Roman Pottery in Britain (Tyers 1996)
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This ware is discussed on p.160 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : SGCC
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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):
- SOG CC
- South Gaulish Colour-coated ware p.64
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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Mould-made hemispherical cups in a fine buff or orange-brown fabric
with a pale golden slip, produced at the South Gaulish sigillata
factories at Millau (Aveyron/FR) and Montans (Tarn/FR) and distributed
across Gaul and Britain during the 1st century AD. |
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Fabric and technology
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Very fine buff or orange-brown fabric (7.5YR 7/4) with thin pale
golden-brown (2.5YR 6/6) slip, which usually has a slight metallic
sheen. Occasionally slightly micaceous, and with fine sand roughcasting
on the interior. Mould-made, with relief decoration on exterior.
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Forms
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Small cups, Cam.~62, with a slightly carinated profile,
which vary considerably in their details. Some have grooves below
the rim, or a slight footring. Decoration in the general style
of contemporary sigillata, but with much individual variation.
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Chronology
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Production may commence in the Tiberian period, but majority from
c. AD 40-70.
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Source
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The southern Gaulish samian factories, particularly La Graufesenque
and Montans.
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Distribution
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Wide but thin distribution in Gaul (particularly Aquitaine), the
Rhineland and Switzerland; rare in Britain.
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Aliases
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Kent fine fabric 20b.
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Bibliography
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Greene 1979, 50-5; Greene 1972. Ohlenroth in Ettlinger and Simonett
1952, for the continental distribution. The evidence from La Graufesenque
is described in Bémont 1982.
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References
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Bémont 1982.
Bémont, C., 'Fabrications de vases ŕ parois fines ŕ La Graufesenque',
ReiCretActa, 21-22, (1982), pp. 7-15.
Ettlinger and Simonett 1952.
Ettlinger, E. and Simonett, C., Römische Keramik aus dem Schütthugel
von Vindonissa, Veröff. Ges. Vindonissa, 3, Basel,
(1952).
Greene 1972.
Greene, K. T., 'Seven pre-Flavian moulded cups from Britain',
ReiCretActa, 14-15, (1972-3), pp. 48-54.
Greene 1979.
Greene, K. T., The pre-Flavian fine wares, Report on the
excavations at Usk, 1965-1976, 1, University of Wales Press
[for] the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales,,
Cardiff:, (1979).
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