mortarium
Description
One fragment with part of the rim and with the right-facing side of the spout. Friable, orange-brown fabric with paler surface; frequent, minute inclusions, mostly quartz, but with some red-brown and rare black material. There is a tiny patch of red-brown slip on the flange. This sherd is distinguished by the wide, shallow rim with a distal bead and a distinctive spout. It can be identified with certainty as from a raetian mortarium of the sort made at Bearsden (Hartley 2012, fig 11, no.6 and Hartley forthcoming, Illus. 7.22, no.50). Raetian mortaria were made widely in the military zone and almost certainly widely in Antonine Scotland (ibid. Table 7.6, ‘Raetian mortaria in Scotland (for details of the classic and derived types (see Hartley 2012)). This example differs in having a distal bead which was a completely normal feature in raetian mortaria, but not in the Type E mortarium referred to above.
Object detail
fort annexe
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