Fabric and technology
Hard, sandy fabric with smoothed surface; sparse red and black inclusions; generally white with pink core (occasionally pink or orange-pink throughout); decorated with red-brown paint, sometimes fired dark grey. Wheel-thrown.
Forms
Young illustrates a range of flagons, jars, bowls and beakers in the ware (P1-P40). Most have only local significance and principal type with wide distribution is P24 – a wide-mouthed carinated bowl, decorated with horizontal painted bands on the exterior and more complex motifs (crosses, swags, circles) on the interior.
Chronology
AD 240-400.
Source
The Oxfordshire industry.
Distribution
Across central England.
Aliases
Bath fabric 7.1. Caister-on-sea fabric OXPA-7. Chelmsford fabric 30. Colchester fabric MQ. Gloucester fabric TF1A. JRPS bibliography fabric oxp. Lullingstone fabric 34. Milton Keynes fabric 5. Kent fine fabric 16c. Towcester fabric 43.
Bibliography
Young 1977, 80-92.
References
Young 1977. Young, C. J., The Roman pottery industry of the Oxford region, British archaeological reports, 43, Oxford, (1977).
