ceramics in Herefordshire

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Romano-British pottery found in Herefordshire

Nene Valley colour-coated ware

Fine tableware with a wide distribution across Britain from the 2nd to the 3rd centuries AD. Hard, smooth-textured fabric; white, off-white or pink; very fine quartz sand, occasional larger grains.

forms

jugs; flagons; bottles; cups; beakers.

Nene Valley cup with barbotine decoration

photograph courtesy of Herefordshire Heritage Services: Hereford Museum & Art Gallery

Sherds of Nene Valley cups with hunting scenes. A hound is shown on the top one and a deer below

photograph courtesy of Herefordshire Heritage Services: Hereford Museum & Art Gallery

Nene Valley ware has been found outside Kenchester (Magnis), and at the Romano-British settlement site at Stretton Grandison.

POTSHERD : Atlas of Roman Pottery - Nene Valley colour-coated wares

Worcestershire fabric 28

Bath fabric 6.3.

Caister-on-sea fabrics NVCC-20 and NVCC.

Carlisle fabric 175.

Chelmsford fabric 2.

Chesterfield fabric 29.

Colchester fabric EA.

Gestingthorpe fabrics B1-B3.

Gloucester fabric TF12B.

Great Chesterford fabric 29.

JRPS bibliography fabric nvc.

Lullingstone fabric 5.

Milton Keynes fabric 6.

Old Penrith fabric 12.

Kent fine fabric 13a.

Towcester fabric 12.