Upchurch and North Kent (Roman) Pottery

A ceramic typology for northern Kent, first to third centuries A.D. By Jason Monaghan

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Pictures of Chaff tempered fabrics - Page 251

C1/1h - C – chaff,  1 - variation,  /  1 - Upchurch, including Hoo etc,  h -hand made body

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Picture of fabric of sherd of Chaff Tempered Ware pictured above
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C1/1h

Colour          : brown to orange.
Section        : as surface.
Texture        : soapy.
Hardness     : soft. Fracture : irregular.
Surface        : 'corky’.
Decoration   : none.
Manufacture : hand built.
Inclusions     : voids, abundant, very coarse, i, I 
                     plus occasional items as per M5/1.

Variations :
C2h: Salting 'briquetage' : bright orange in colour, crumbly in texture. Most areas had their own equivalent chaff-tempered salting vessels, but only Upchurch produced other vessels in C1h.

Fabric definitions - Fabrics are listed according to temper. Where fabrics from different production sites are very similar, only the most typical is described in full. The remainder are listed in numerical order. Only Upchurch and Thameside fabrics are described, those of Thameside Essex and West Kent being beyond the scope of this work. The philosophy of the chosen system is outlined in chapter 4.

Temper Codes   C - chaff,   F - flint,   G - grog,   H - shell,   I - no temper,   S - sand

Production Area    1 - Upchurch, including Hoo and all Medway marshes.   2 -Isle of Grain.
     Codes              3 - Higham and the High ground above the Thames.       4 -Cliffe parish.   
                              5 - Shorne parish and marshes to the east of Chalk.       6 -Cooling and Halstow marshes.

Technical Variations   b - burnished.      h -hand made body (rim may be wheel finished),
                                    p -pitch-painted,  s -slipped.

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