Roman - Mortaria (5.MOR.GB.0001)
- Category
- Mortaria (Roman)
- Fabric name
- Oxfordshire White ware (OXF WW)
- Chronology
- Roman > Middle Roman / Late Roman
- Dating method(-s)
- fabric
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
-
sample from base sherd, with trituration grit; general dating of this production: 250-400 AD (cf. Young 1977, Tomber & Dore 1998)
Find location
- Site type
- Consumption site
- Location
- Belgium; West-Vlaanderen; Oudenburg
- Site name
- Oudenburg, Spegelaere
- Excavation or Survey Team
- excavation and post-excavation research by Flanders Heritage Agency, conducted by Sofie Vanhoutte
- Additional contextual information
- context: Roman fort Oudenburg; dark earth level (OS2000J) on top of Roman level
Provenance
- Location
- the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Oxfordshire
- Supposed site(s) of production
- Additional information
- Slip
- No
- Slip color
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- Slip
- No
- Slip color
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- dense trituration grit with mostly subrounded to angular, translucent or transparent quartz, of pink, black, white and brown colour
- Surface color
- cream to grey
- Surface texture
- Smooth
- Fracture color
- cream
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- abundant small and larger, translucent white and transparent quartz inclusions, well-sorted; some red and red-brown iron-rich inclusions, poorly sorted; occasional larger black inclusions
- Matrix and voids
- hard, fairly fine-textured fabric, with abundant quartz inclusions; only some channel- and vesicle-shaped voids
- Diagnostic features
- hard, fine-textured fabric with abundant translucent quartz inclusions
- Additional information
- dense trituration grit with mostly subrounded to angular, translucent or transparent quartz, of pink, black, white and brown colour
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.F12
- Original inventory nr.
- A0172
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
- Inclusions
- Voids
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 5.MOR.GB.0001
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed
- Host collection
- Onroerenderfgoeddepot agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
Tomber & Dore 1998
- Full reference
-
Tomber R. & Dore J. 1998. The National Roman Fabric Reference Collection. A Handbook. MoLAS Monograph 2, Museum of London Archaeology Service, London.
Young 1977
- Full reference
-
Young C.J. 1977. Oxfordshire Roman Pottery. BAR. British Series, 43. British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd., Oxford.
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Last modified: 2024-05-02.