Roman grey-ware flagon, with a burnished rim and upper half body, with vertical burnished lines on the neck.
From Manor Farm, Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire, probably made at the Alice Holt kilns, near Farnham, Surrey, Roman, 200-279.
Grey-ware flagon, with a burnished rim and upper half body, with vertical burnished lines on the neck. It had an incised swastika graffiti, which was probably the owner’s identification mark. It was made in the Alice Holt kilns in the east of Hampshire and the type has a date range of AD 200-280, with examples from Silchester that can be dated to AD 270. This suggests that the burial was of late 3rd century date, but that the samian was of some antiquity, perhaps a treasured heirloom, before being included in the grave.
