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Description: | A large base and body shard of decorated Roman Samian Ware/Terre Sigillata pottery. The rest of the vessel has broken off. It is semi-circular in plan. The fabric is very hard (it rings when knocked), is light orange in colour and has an orange/red 'satin' gloss slip on both the inner and outer surface. The form of this piece of samian ware is categorized as Dragendorff 18 after the German scholar who made the first systematic numbering of Italian and Gaulish terra sigillata ('stamped clay') pottery in the 1890s. The stamp on the base of the bowel reads OFVIRIL which is an abbreviation of the maker Virilis. This piece was made in La Graufesenque in Millau, France. It can be dated to 70-100AD.In "Roman Samian Pottery in Britain", Paul Webster (1996) notes that red-slip coated samian ware, made mainly in Gaul and Germany, was imported into Britain from the mid 1st to the mid 3rd centuries.
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