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| | potsherd - Roman pottery - Mancetter-Hartshill mortaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | Mortaria manufactured at Mancetter and Hartshill (Warks/GB) from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD; extensive distribution in midlands and northern England. |
 | | Fine-textured fabric, often very hard; creamy-white, perhaps with pink or grey core, occasionally with a pale-brown wash; inclusions of fine quartz and occasional red-brown and white particles; gritted with either quartz and red-brown sandstone (on earlier specimens), or abundant red-brown or fl angular grits (including ironstone or slag). |
 | | Hartley, K. F., 'The kilns at Mancetter and Hartshill, Warwickshire' in Current research in Romano-British coarse pottery: papers given at a C.B.A. Conference held at New College, Oxford, March 24 to 26, 1972, ed. |
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