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Alice Holt Ceramics.

The Alice Holt Forest in Hampshire (UK) gives its name to coarse Roman period pottery produced at various sites in the area from the first to 4th Centuries AD.

Alice Holt (also called Farnham Grey ware) is fairly common at sites across southern and southeastern England, Alice Holt Pottery is characterised as a course grey sandy clay which has a very rough look and none of the finesse associated with Samian wares of the same period.

 

CB 2003

Further information:

The pottery kilns of Roman Britain
V. G. Swan
(HMSO, London, 1984, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Supplementary Series 5).

 


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