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Glevum and the Second Legion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

Charles Green
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This ware is both hard and heavy. Its colour varies from creamy-buff through shades of orange-buff to a dark buff. The surface is commonly burnished. This was frequently done with a fast-spinning wheel and is, in consequence, very smooth. A large number of vessels, however, are hand-burnished, which tends to produce a ‘furrowed’ surface. Sometimes a similar effect can be observed on a wheel-burnished pot, e.g. in the platters (fig. 4, 51-5). The fabric contains a considerable quantity of mica, which is responsible for a not uncommon semi-metallic lustre.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 1-2 , November 1943 , pp. 15 - 28
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Copyright ©Charles Green 1943. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 Part i appeared in JRS xxxii, 39 ff.

2 Frequent references are made below to material from (a) Hofheim, described in Ritterling, , Das frührömische Lager bet Hofheim (Annalen des Vereins für Nassau. Altertumskunde vol. xl, 1912, 1913)Google Scholar = Hofheim.

(b) Colchester in Catalogue of Roman Pottery in the Colchester Museum, 1930 = Colchester Cat. and in Annual Reports of the Colchester Museum = Colchester Mus. Rep.

(c) Caerleon, in Archaeologia Cambrensis lxxxiv, 1929, 237Google Scholar ff. = Jenkin's Field. Ibid, lxxxvii, 1932, 265 ff. = Prysg Field. Ibid. xcv, 1940, 101 ff. = Myrtle Orchard. Archaeologia lxxxviii, 1928, 111Google Scholar ff. = Amphitheatre.

(d) Richborough, in Report on the Excavation of Richborough i, ii, iii (Research Committee of Soc. of Antiquaries London, vi, vii, x, 1926, 1928, 1932)Google Scholar = Richborough Report.

(e) Swarling in Excavation of the Late-Celtic Urnfield at Swarling, Kent (ibid. v, 1925) = Swarling Report.

(f) Verulamium in Verulamium (ibid. xi, 1936) = Verulamium Report.

(g) Wroxeter in Excavations on the site of the Roman Town at Wroxeter (ibid. I, ii, iv, 1913, 1914, 1916) = Wroxeter Report.

3 The relative frequency of each type given in the descriptions of nos. 1–86 refers only to its occurrence in Glevum ware.