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Class : Mortaria
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Source : Germany
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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.131-132 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : SOMO
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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):
- SOL WH
- Soller White ware p.79
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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Mortaria manufactured
at Soller (Nordrhein-Westfalen/DE) during 2nd century AD; distributed
on lower Rhine valley and southern Britain. |
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Fabric and technology
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Hard, fine-textured fabric, creamy-yellow in colour with pink
core with large white trituration grits.
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Forms
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Mortaria, either wall-sided or with thick heavy flat flange.
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Stamps
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Some vessels with large flange are stamped by Verecundus (AD 150-200);
his products are notable for their large diameter (at c. 75cm,
twice the size of an 'average' mortarium) and he leaves thumb
impressions near the stamp and on the end of the spout.
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Chronology
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AD 150-220.
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Source
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Kilns excavated at Soller, Kreis Düren (30km SE of Köln).
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Distribution
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The lower Rhineland and Britain, where they have a thin but widespread
distribution. Several example from waterfront deposits at St
Magnus House, London (Richardson 1986, 111).
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Aliases
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Carlisle fabric 618. Chichester mortarium fabric
24. Dorchester fabric 42G. Exeter mortarium fabric
FC18. JRPS bibliography fabric slm. Lullingstone
fabric 38. Old Penrith fabric 116.
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Bibliography
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For the kilns see Haupt 1984, with a note by K. F. Hartley on
Verecundus.
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References
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Haupt 1984.
Haupt, D., 'Römischer Töpfereibezirk bei Soller, Kreis Düren'
in Beiträge zur Archäologie des römischen Rheinlands, 4,
ed. D. Haupt, Rheinische Ausgrabungen, 23, Rheinland-Verlag,
Bonn/Köln, (1984).
Richardson 1986.
Richardson, B., 'The Pottery' in The Roman quay at St. Magnus
House London: excavations at New Fresh Wharf, Lower Thames Street,
London, 1974-16, ed. Miller, LAMAS Special Paper, 8,
LAMAS, London, (1986), pp. No 1.164-68.
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