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
Sherd 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.
Sherd EF-10-253-9469 exterior - background
grid in centimetres
Sherd EF-10-253 - 9469 interior - background
grid in centimetres
Sherd EF-10-253 - 9469 rim with pouring spout
Sherd EF-10-253 - 9469 rim profile
Sherd EF-10-253 - 9469 close up of trituration-
scale in millimetres
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gratefully received
so that we can amend our pages to give as accurate a record as
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