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Pottery fabrics
by type and date

Comparative chart
of pottery fabrics
and phases
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POTTERY FABRICS BY TYPE

Diagnostic Manufactured Wares General Description

A : Grogged Wares

FABRIC	DESCRIPTION
A	General grogged
A1	Hard cream grogged
A2	Soft pink grogged
A3	Buff/pink grogged; harder
A4	Reddish yellow surfaces, grey core, black inclusions
AB	Grog with shell temper

B : Calcite-Shelly Wares

FABRIC	DESCRIPTION
B	General shelly
B1	Reddish-yellow, ‘soapy’, some large shell
B2	Red/dark brown/black, 'soapy’, small shell
B4	Hard buff/yellow/grey
B5	Bourne/Greetham shelly
B6	Hard reddish-yellow/buff/pink
B7	Red/dark brown/black, fairly soft
B9	Shell with noticeable limestone
B10	Hard, very small ‘crushed’ shell

C : Reduced or Greywares

FABRIC	DESCRIPTION
C	Unclassified reduced
C1	Lower Nene Valley, slipped
C2	Lower Nene Valley, 'fumed’
C4	Local: grey surfaces with paler core
C5	Local grey/brown soft sandy
C6	Grey with black burnished surfaces, soft
C7	Fine micaceous grey
C8	BB1
C9	Grey microfossil; can have oxidised surfaces
C10	Coarse, hard grey
C11	Local: dark grey surfaces with paler core
C15	Grey with reddish yellow core
C16	Grey with grey/reddish yellow 'sandwich’ core
C17	Cream-light grey 'sandwich’ core with dark grey surfaces
C18	Coarse, hard grey/grey-brown
C21	Imitation BB1
C22	BB2
C23	Imitation BB2
C24	Grey with oxidised surface
C18	Coarse, hard grey/grey-brown
C27	Oxford grey
C29	Hadham grey

D : Oxidised Wares

FABRIC	DESCRIPTION
D	Unclassified oxidised
D1	Lower Nene Valley cream/pink colour-coat
D2	Lower Nene Valley/Midlands cream self-coloured
D3	Reddish-yellow, soft, burnished
D4	Oxford red colour-coat
D5	Hadham/Essex reddish yellow
D6/D9	Local/Verulamium/Oxford cream
D8	Hard, fine white/cream – Midlands manufacture
D10	Hard, fine white/cream; thin burnished, Gallo-belgic
D11	Central Gaulish colour-coated
D12	Lower Rhineland colour-coated
D14	'rhenish’ ware; moselkeramik
D16	Local/Oxford reddish yellow
D17	Local fine reddish-yellow, can have buff or grey zones
D21	Lower Nene Valley white/pink/cream self-coloured
D22	Lower Nene Valley colour-coated (grey core)
D24	Lower Nene Valley colour-coated (orange core)
D25	Reddish-yellow/grey (with mica-gilt surface)
D27	Oxfordshire white/cream (inc parchment)
D28	Mancetter-Hartshill cream
D29	Colchester buff/cream
D40	Samian
D50	Amphora

POTTERY FABRIC TYPES BY DATE

FABRIC	DATE RANGE
A	Mid 1st to early 2nd century AD
A1	Late 1st to mid 2nd century AD
A2	Mid 2nd to 4th century AD
A3	Late 1st to mid 2nd century AD
A4	Mid 1st to early 2nd century AD
AB	Mid 2nd to 4th century AD
B	1st to 4th century AD
B1	Mid 1st to early 2nd century AD
B2	Mid 1st to early 2nd century AD
B6	Late 1st to mid 2nd century AD
B7	Late Iron Age
C	Mid 2nd to 4th century AD
C1	Mid 2nd to late 3rd century AD
C2	Mid 2nd to late 3rd century AD
C4	2nd to 3rd century AD
C6	Late 1st to mid 2nd century AD
C7	Mainly early/mid 2nd century AD
C8	Mid 2nd to 4th; mainly 3rd/4th century AD
C9	Late 1st to mid 2nd century AD
C11	Early/mid 2nd to mid 3rd century AD
C15	Early/mid 2nd to mid 3rd century AD
C16	Early/mid 2nd to mid 3rd century AD
C17	Early/mid 2nd to mid 3rd century AD
C18	Mid 2nd to late 3rd century AD
C21	Mainly 3rd century AD
C22	Mid 2d to 3rd mid century AD
C23	Mid 2nd to 3rd century AD
C24	Mainly 2nd century AD
C27	Early/mid 2nd to 3rd century AD
D	Mainly 2nd century AD
D1	Late 2nd to 4th century AD
D2	2d to mid 3rd century AD
D4	Later 2nd to 4th century AD
D5	Mainly 4th century AD
D6/9	Late 1st to 2nd century AD
D11	Mid-late 2nd century AD
D12	Mid-late 2nd century AD
D14	Late 2nd to 3rd century AD
D16	Early 2nd to 3rd century AD
D22	Mainly mid 3rd to 4th century AD
D24	Mainly mid 3rd to 4th century AD
D27	Mainly 3rd to 4th century AD
D28	2nd to 4th century AD
D40	Late 1st to early 3rd century AD