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Description: | Two rim sherds, four body sherds and one base sherd of wheel-thrown Nene Valley ware, dating from the mid 2nd-4th century AD (varied thickness; collective weight: 120.67g). Nene Valley ware is a fine table ware with a hard, smooth-textured fabric with a finely irregular fracture. The colour if the fabric can vary from white to an off-white; orange; yellow; darker grey or brown core with variable slip colour ranging from dark brown to a black, mottled orange or orange-brown. There are abundant fine quartz sand inclusions as well as occasional large quartz grains with red; orange; black flecks and occasional pale clay pellets (some streaking). Nene Valley ware has a wide range of fine table wares including jugs, flagons, bottles, imitation Samian forms, Castor boxes, cups and beakers. Kiln sites for this ware are found at sites in Hunts including those at Ailsworth, Castor, Sibson Cum Stibbington, Stanground, South and Water Newton. The distribution for this ware focuses mainly around the Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Essex area, but scatters of this pottery have been found in the North and in Scotland as well as the south west. The ware was most extensive during the 3rd century AD, prior to the rise of the Oxfordshire industry. Tyers, P, 1996, ?Roman Pottery in Britain?, pages 173-5. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 150
400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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