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Aspects of Kentish Local
History
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Maidstone Area
Archaeological Group (M.A.A.G.)
Roman Pottery
Mortaria sherds – Please
help us to identify these
From the pictures below, can you help us to
identify the kiln site, the fabric and the form of these sherds? Those sherds
successfully identified will form a section of the Christopher St John Breen
Roman Pottery Archive.
If you would like to help, please email your suggestions to localhistory@tedconnell.org.uk
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Pottery Mortaria sherds introduction
4 sherds, 3 match-break, from
excavations at East Farleigh Roman Villa, Kent - Maidstone Area Archaeological
Group
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Christopher Young says the sherds
are an Oxfordshire white colour-coat, type WC5,dated c.240-300, and not
particularly common
Three sherds EF-09-10-121-9075 interior - background
grid in centimetre squares
Three sherds EF-09-10-121-9075 exterior - background
grid in centimetre squares
Sherd EF-09-10-121-9075 trituration
Sherd EF-09-10-121-9075 close up of trituration -
scale in millimetres
Sherd EF-09-10-121-9075 section - scale in
millimetres
Sherd EF-09-10-121-9075 fresh break - scale in
millimetres
Sherd EF-09-10-121-9075 interior
Sherd EF-09-10-121-9075 rim profile
003-EF-09-130-9224 exterior - background grid
in centimetre squares
003-EF-09-130-9224 interior - background grid
in centimetre squares
003-EF-09-130-9224 trituration
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Pottery Mortaria sherds introduction
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enthusiastic amateurs. Any errors noticed by other researchers will be to
gratefully received
so that we can amend our pages to give as accurate a record as
possible. Please send details too localhistory@tedconnell.org.uk
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