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Camulodunum type 262, le type Besançon and Central Gaulish granite-tempered ware

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Site name La Villeneuve-au-Châtelot
location FR 10-Aube
museum
Typology Cam 262
Description A single example of the C262 form is illustrated by Piette from a temple site at Villeneuve-au-Châtelot. Other than the colour (brown exterior, black interior) the fabric is not described, but traces of a burnt cord or string were noted at the neck. The jar is associated with a small bowl in a wheel-thrown grey ware, and is probably of Augustan or later date.

Epernay Museum contains a collection of grey wares jars and bowls from a pottery workshop excavated at Villeneuve-au-Châtelot in 1938, referred to briefly in Gallia 1 (1943) 211-213 (see also Le Ny 1988, ###). The production probably dates to the mid- or late-first century AD, and although there are none amongst this material it has been suggested that some of the grey-ware moulded-rim jars found at Melun were produced at kilns here. (information from Mme Cottart, Melun).

Ferdière 1972
Bibliography Piette 1981, fig.2,2
Fabrics(s) Insufficient data
Location map : La Villeneuve-au-Châtelot
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