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Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
2ND CENTURY A.D.
11 in. (1.98 kg, 28 cm wide).
With everted rim and decorative geometric band to the shoulder. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
Found Upchurch Marshes, Kent, UK, in the 1980s.
Ex Winter Collection, Kent, UK.
LITERATURE:
See Pollard, R. J., The Roman Pottery of Kent, 1988.
FOOTNOTES:
The Roman pottery kilns on what are now the tidal marshes at Upchurch, Kent, are justly famed as a thriving pottery production area with many kiln and related sites. The London clay in this area is of fine quality and was thus suitable for pottery making. With the rise in the sea level, the area is now mostly inundated and, as tidal forces erode the silts, pottery (often 'seconds'), is sometimes exposed. The soft muds and general inaccessibility of the area make collection difficult.
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