Fabric and technology
Hard, rough unevenly mixed creamy-yellow (10YR 8/2) fabric with abundant red-brown inclusions of fine-textured sandstone, siltstone and clay pellets; wheel-thrown.
Forms
Mortarium with distinctive short thick flange and barely projecting spout Cam.~194.
Chronology
Pre-Flavian.
Source
Probably the Eifel region of Germany (Williams in Manning 1993, 424). Hawkes and Hull note that the Camulodunum specimens are in a similar clay to those from Hofheim (Hawkes and Hull 1947, 254).
Distribution
Continental distribution not known, but probably lower and middle Rhine; occasional in Britain on pre-Flavian sites.
Aliases
Chichester mortarium fabric 18. Exeter mortarium fabric FC19. JRPS bibliography fabric mem. Sheepen mortarium fabrics 4-5. Usk mortarium fabric 5.
Bibliography
Hartley in Manning 1993, 398, imp2.
References
Hawkes and Hull 1947. Hawkes, C. F. C. and Hull, M. R., Camulodunum. First report on the excavations at Colchester, 1930-39, Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 14, Society of Antiquaries, Oxford, (1947).
Manning 1993. Manning, W. H., The Roman pottery, Report on the excavations at Usk, 1965-1976, University of Wales Press [for] the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales, Cardiff, (1993).
