Fabric and technology
Hard, slightly rough fabric with irregular fracture; pale red-brown (7.5YR 7/6) fabric with a darker margins; fine inclusions of quartz sand and limestone set in micaceous, calcareous matrix; thin cream or white slip with clear or milky quartz trituration.
Forms
Mortaria, with bead and flange.
Stamps
Stamped diagonally across the flange; principal potter is A. Terrentius Ripanus.
Chronology
AD 55-90.
Source
South-west England, probably the Gloucester region.
Distribution
Rare, but scattered across western England and Wales, with outliers at London and Castleford.
Aliases
Usk mortarium fabric 22.
Bibliography
Hartley in Manning 1993, 392-3, 411, 422.
References
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).
