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Description: | A fragment of a ceramic vessel of Roman date. The vessel is a base sherd from a shallow South Gaulish Samian Ware (terra sigillata) bowl or dish. The sherd is semi-circular with a projecting base ring. The fabric is smooth and hard with a pinkish-brown colour and a glossy red slip covering the entire surface. The breaks display conchoidal fracturing and abundant inclusions of fine limestone are present.A rouletted band runs round the interior floor of the pot with a central cartouche containing a partial maker's stamp. The only distinguishable letters remaining are 'OFCA[]'. Similar fragments containing the maker's stamp 'OFCALVI' are known from Excavations at Elms Farm, Essex (Bird 2015) and are all of the La Graufesenquea South Gaulish type.Production at La Graufesenque commences in the late Augustan period, and there may be some Tiberian exports to Britain, but the period of the major export is c. AD 40-100. Local production continues up to at least c. AD 200 (http://potsherd.net/atlas/Ware/SGTS).The fragment is 95.2mm long, 54.1mm wide, 20.1mm thick and weighs 66g.Reference:Bird, J. (2015) The Italian-type terra sigillata, in M. Atkinson and S.J. Preston Heybridge: A Late Iron Age and Roman Settlement, Excavations at Elms Farm 1993-5, Internet Archaeology 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.11141/ia.40.1.bird
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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