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
To Roman
Pottery Mortaria sherds introduction
Six sherds from same vessel from
excavations at East Farleigh Roman Villa, Kent - Maidstone Area Archaeological
Group
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Christopher Young says the sherds
are from a Oxfordshire white ware, type M22, dating from c240-400+ and the
most common white ware Oxford mortarium.
Six sherds from same vessel EF-09-153-9286 -
background grid in centimetre squares
Six sherds from same vessel EF-09-153-9286 exterior
- background grid in centimetre squares
Sherd EF-09-153-9286 from above - background grid in
centimetre squares
Sherd EF-09-153-9286 rim profile
Sherd EF-09-153-9286 trituration - background grid
in centimetre squares
Sherd EF-09-153-9286 close up of trituration - scale
in millimetres
Sherd EF-09-153-9286 section - scale in millimetres
Sherd EF-09-153-9286 fresh break - scale in
millimetres