First-century pottery manufacture at Eccles, Kent
by Alec Detsicas
Roman Pottery Studies in Britain and Beyond.
BAR S30 Oxford, 19-36
59. Picture
Off-white fabric, buff core,
pitted and badly finished at the upper junction of neck and handle, with a screw
neck rim-profile.
60. Picture
Pinkish buff fabric, buff core, heavily sanded, distorted round the neck,
with a screw neck rim-profile.
61. Picture
Light-red fabric, with heavy grooving below its pinched neck rim-profile.
62. Picture
Off-white fabric, pinkish buff core, with a disc rim-profile, slightly
pinched at the edge opposite the handle to form a rudimentary spout.
63. Picture
Cream, sandy fabric, buff core, pitted, a larger disc rim-profile, with a
relatively narrow neck.
64. Completely restored, off-white fabric, buff core, its disc rim-profile more
flattened than no. 62, above, and the pinching for the spout much more
pronounced.
65. Picture
Off-white creamy fabric, buff core, its disc rim-profile distorted in making
the small spout and virtually horizontal.
66. Picture
Pink fabric and core, with a slightly angular disc rim-profile.
67. Picture
Creamy fabric, buff core, pitted, the disc rim-profile becoming down-turned.
68. Picture
Pinkish cream, owing to misfiring, fairly sandy and pitted, with a more
elaborate and down-turned, heavily undercut disc rim-profile.
69. Picture
Pink fabric and core, distorted at the junction of handle and neck, a
similar but less elaborate disc rim-profile than no. 68, above.
Nos. 70 and 71 are wide-mouthed flagons or jugs, intermediate between the
single-handled flagons and the double-handled jugs. It is conceivable that both
these vessels, too, were double-handled, but this is not certain as they had
been broken where a second handle could have been.
70. Picture
Creamy fabric, buff core, grooving at base of neck, with a flattened
rim-profile.
71. Picture
Off-white, sandy fabric, some pitting, with a deeper, more heavily grooved
neck and a distorted rim whose profile is very similar to no. 70, above.
v. Jugs (Figs. 3.3-3.4).
These vessels are naturally heavier and larger than the flagon series, yet they
present a relatively great variety of forms.
72. Picture
Pink, sandy fabric and core, with a slightly everted rim-profile.
73.
Picture Pink, sandy fabric and core, its rim-profile rather more everted than no.
72, above, and recessed.
74. Picture
Creamy fabric, buff core, some pitting, its rim-profile very close to the
Hofheim-type flagons, grooved round the neck.
75. Picture
Off-white, coarse fabric due to overfiring, with a shallow out-bent
rim-profile.