Roman - Mortaria (5.MOR.GB.0004)
- Category
- Mortaria (Roman)
- Fabric name
- Verulamium white ware (VER MOR)
- Chronology
- Roman > Late Roman
- Dating method(-s)
- fabric
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- sample from almost complete mortarium Wilson type 2697 variant, with trituration grit; the form of this Verulamium white ware mortarium is close to that of Wilson (1984) type 2697, which is the last mortarium in the series from the excavations conducted by Frere in Verulamium, and dated c. AD 280-360; cf. 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: occupation level Roman fort Oudenburg; twelve joining fragments found scattered over several levels, the earliest levels in which its fragments were found, can be assigned to fort level 4; feature number OS22947etc.; drawing number C5433/5434/5437/5460/5489
Provenance
- Location
- the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Supposed site(s) of production
- Brockley Hill (Middx/GB) and St Albans (Verulamium, Herts/GB) and surrounding region
- 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
- Surface color
- cream to yellow
- Surface texture
- Rough
- Fracture color
- white to cream
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- characteristic abundant inclusions of well-sorted quartz (white, semitransparent, translucent), sometimes red iron coated; most quartz between 0.2–0.5mm, although occasional grains to 0.8mm are visible
- Matrix and voids
- hard, granular fabric, with a slightly laminar fracture; dense, clean clay matrix
- Diagnostic features
- hard, granular fabric with slightly laminar fracture and abundant quartz inclusions
- Additional information
- body sherd with some trituration grits, consisting of angular to subrounded flint (some dark) and quartz
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.F14
- Original inventory nr.
- A0174
- 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.0004
- 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.
Wilson 1984
- Full reference
-
Wilson M.G. 1984. The other pottery. In: Frere S. (ed.), Verulamium Excavations Vol. III, University Committee for Archaeology Monograph 1, Oxford, 200-266.
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Last modified: 2024-04-24.