Finds from the excavation of Eccles Roman Villa, Kent
First-century pottery manufacture at Eccles, Kent  by Alec Detsicas
   Roman Pottery Studies in Britain and Beyond. Papers presented to John Gillam, BAR30 Oxford, 19-36

Pictures of number 85 sherd illustrated in the article above

85 is a curious vessel included in the lid forms, though it is not impossible that it may have been a fairly deep, wide bowl. The fabric of this pot is creamy yellow, very smooth and somewhat shiny, very slightly pitted and so far as known is unlike any fabric so far noted. The body of this pot is well formed, slightly curved, with grooving above the carinated upper portion and a very high internal kick. If this vessel was not intended as a lid, it would suggest, but for its kick, an attempt to imitate samian Form 29, which it otherwise closely recalls.

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