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Description: | A sherd of a slip-coated vessel, probably samian ware or imitation samian ware, dating from the Roman period. The vessel consists of a portion of both the foot ring and the gently curving base of the vessel. The fabric is fine and orange/brown in colour, with moderately frequent fine silicaceous inclusions. The incomplete slipped surface, which is present on the exterior of the sherd, is brown and lustrous. The basal interior does not have a slipped surface evident. There is no decoration visible on the sherd, although there are two concentric rings which do not have a slipped surface remaining, running around the inside of the footring. The sherd is 52.4mm long, 32.1mm wide, and 19.6mm from the bottom of the footring to the top of the base. The sherd has a mass of 13.8g.
In ??Roman Samian Pottery in Britain??, Paul Webster (1996, p.1) notes that samian ware, made mainly in Gaul and Germany, was imported into Britain from the mid 1st to the mid 3rd centuries. He adds that samian forms and fabrics were also imitated by some British potteries (ibid. p15). Webster also points out (ibid.) that the Gaulish Samian tradition is but one branch of a widespread Roman red-slipped tradition, which did not stop with Gallic samian production. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Slarke, Duncan - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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