Fabric
Hard, black, grey or red-brown fabric. Granular texture with abundant quartz, rarer shale, and red-brown iron-rich inclusions. Handmade. Burnished surfaces - rarely over a slip.
Form
handmade jars; bowls; dishes; flagons; lids; flagon
Decoration
burnished line latticing, chevrons etc.
Date
late 1st-4th c
Source
traded / Dorset / Poole Harbour
NRFRC
DOR BB 1
Bibliography
Farrar 1973; Gillam 1976; Peacock 1973; Tomber and Dore 1998, 127; Williams 1977;
Local references
Defences p.62. Gates p.100. Kingscote p.253. Kingsholm p.78. St Oswald’s Priory p.44. Westgate Street p.90.
Distribution
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TF4: Reference sample
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TF4: Types (Gates, Fig. 65)
TF4: Types (Kingscote, Fig. 111)
TF4: Types (Kingscote, Fig. 112)
TF4: Types (Kingscote, Fig. 113)
TF4: Types (Kingscote, Fig. 114)
TF4: Types (Kingscote, Fig. 115)