Fabric and technology
Hard sandy fabric; white or off-white, rarely with pale grey core; abundant well-sorted quartz sand temper with occasional red-brown or grey flint inclusions; trituration grit of quartz, flint, brown sandstone and other red-brown material. Wheel-thrown.
Forms
Mortaria, with bead and flange. Fulford defines six mortarium types (forms 102-7) in this ware, some decorated with incised wavy-lines on the flange.
Chronology
c. AD 260-370.
Source
The New Forest industry.
Distribution
Principally central southern England, with a thin scatter beyond.
Aliases
Fulford (1975) fabric 2a.
Aliases
Bath fabric 2.4. Chichester mortarium fabrics 5-6. Colchester fabric TH. Exeter mortarium fabrics FB5 and FB6. JRPS bibliography fabric nfm.
Bibliography
Fulford 1975, 74-9, 123. RCHM gazetteer 108-9, F322-41, F344
References
Fulford 1975. Fulford, M. G., New Forest Roman pottery. Manufacture and distribution, with a corpus of pottery types, British archaeological reports, 17, BAR, Oxford, (1975).
