Aspects of Kentish Local History

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. 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.

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