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Description: | A body sherd of a medium-grey ceramic of Roman date (AD 200-410). It is lightly burnished to a darker grey at the surfaces. The fabric includes abundant, well-sorted small (0.1 - 0.2mm) quartz grains, the larger of which are opaque and milky-white in colour. Sparse mica can also be seen in the fabric. The ceramic is hard-fired, with an irregular fracture and rough surface. This fabric is very similar to Holme-on-Spalding Moor Reduced Ware, one of a number of grey-burnished wares known from the East-Yorkshire region and produced at several sites, and is thus a local product of the very localised grey-ware industry.Monaghan, J. 1997. Roman Pottery from York (The Archaeology of York 16/8). York: York Archaeological Trust. pp: 900-901Thanks are extended to Mr. Adam Parker, Assistant Curator of Archaeology at The Yorkshire Musem, for the identification of this object.
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