Fabric and technology
Hard, fine textured fabric; brownish-red with purple or maroon tinge, with thin red slip over whole surface; fine white flecks in clean matrix.
Forms
Plates, bowls and dishes; principal form in Britain is Hayes type 3, a shallow bowl with short vertical wall, incorporating slight flange, frequently stamped on inner face with crosses and other motifs.
Chronology
Post-Roman in Britain, c. AD 475-550.
Source
Phocaea, western Asia Minor.
Distribution
Principally the eastern Mediterranean, but with scattered distribution around the west, along the Atlantic seaways, to south-west Britain and Ireland.
Aliases
Late Roman C.
Aliases
British (Tintagel) class Ai.
Bibliography
Source and dating: Hayes 1972, 323-70; Hayes 1980; Mayet and Picon 1986; Empereur and Picon 1986. Distribution in Britain: Thomas 1981; Fulford 1989; also Rahtz et al. 1992, 161-2.
References
Empereur and Picon 1986. Empereur, J. Y. and Picon, M., ‘A propos d’un nouvel atelier de Late Roman C’, Figlina, 7, (1986), pp. 143-6.
Fulford 1989. Fulford, M. G., ‘Byzantium and Britain: a Mediterranean perspective on Post-Roman Mediterranean imports in western Britain and Ireland’, MedArch, 33, (1989), pp. 1-6.
Hayes 1972. Hayes, J. W., Late Roman pottery, British School at Rome, London, (1972).
Hayes 1980. Hayes, J. W., A supplement to Late Roman Pottery, British School at Rome, London, (1980).
Mayet and Picon 1986. Mayet, F. and Picon, M., ‘Une sigillée phocéenne tardive (Late Roman C ware) et sa diffusion en Occident’, Figlina, 7, (1986), pp. 129-34.
Rahtz et al. 1992. Rahtz, P. A., Woodward, A., Burrow, I., Everton, A., Watts, L., Leach, P., Hirst, S., Fowler, P. and Gardner, K., Cadbury Congresbury 1968-73. A late/post-Roman hilltop settlement in Somerset, British archaeological reports. British series, 223, Tempus Reparatum, Oxford, (1992).
Thomas 1981. Thomas, C., A provisional list of imported pottery in Post-Roman Britain and Ireland, Special report, 7, Institute of Cornish Studies, Redruth, (1981).