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Description: | Fragment of Samien ware dating to the Roman period (45-410AD). It is triangular in plan, rectangular in cross-section and slightly curved in profile. The fabric is very hard is light orange in colour and has an orange/red 'satin' gloss slip on both the inner and outer surface. 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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