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The Dating of Farnham (Alice Holt) Pottery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Martin Millett
Martin Millett
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Merton College, Oxford
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The extensive Romano-British coarse-pottery manufacturing centre in the Farnham area of west Surrey and north-eastern Hampshire has now been known for over half a century and several isolated kilns have been investigated. Until recently however the dating of the pottery has lacked precision owing to the scarcity of stratified and dated groups near to the kilns. As a result of this and the lack of a synthesis of the kiln evidence excavators have found the pottery of little value as dating evidence. Since 1969 a series of excavations on the Romano-British site at Neatham (Vindomi), about 8 km from the main kiln group, have produced large quantities of the pottery, much of it from a series of stratified groups. A study of this material has resulted in improved dating. This paper presents a dated typology of the more widely-distributed types and re-examines the dating of the excavated kilns.

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Britannia , Volume 10 , November 1979 , pp. 121 - 137
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Copyright © Martin Millett 1979. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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