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Description: | Two neck sherds in Severn Valley ware Roman pottery. The fabric is hard but fine-textured, which is grey/ brown or reddish-orange colour at the surface, sometimes with a grey core. Both sherds are slightly micaceous with small frequent inclusions. Neither of the sherds are decorated, but are slightly worn and in a fair condition. The thickness ranges from 8-14mm and the collective weight is 47.18g.
Widely distributed Severn Valley forms include handled tankards, storage and wide-mouthed jars, with production flourishing during the 2nd and early 3rd and continuing into the 4th century AD. Several 2nd/3rd century kiln sites are known, extending through the Severn valley (Alkington, Ledbury, Malvern, Perry Barr) to Wroxeter. The earliest production centres are not yet identified, but they were perhaps in the Gloucester region. During the mid 1st century AD, distribution was largely confined to sites in the Severn valley near the Gloucester region, but from the later 1st century, distributions were present at and around Wroxeter and Chester. The pottery is abundant on sites in the lower Severn basin through the 2nd/ 3rd century, but there was extension of small-scale supply to north-west England and near Hadrian??s Wall and Scotland in the 2nd century (Tyers 1996, 197-9). | Subjects: | Severn Valley ware | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Johnson, Caroline - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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