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Roman glass bowl
Rim fragment of a pillar-moulded bowl of dark cobalt-blue glass. Irregular rim, rotary polished; inner surfaces also rotary-polished, ribbed area fire-polished. Part of one rib extant. Diameter of rim approximately 18 cms.
Blue-green bowls are the most common everywhere but dark blue was one of the most popular of the other colour variations. Production of these ceased earlier than the more common blue-green, probably by circa AD60-70. These were possibly made by casting in a ribbed mould, or by pressing the glass whilst still hot with a disc-shaped tool with gaps through which the ribs were formed.
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Site Name: British Telecom Site, Caerleon
Notes: Excavation conducted on land immediately to the east of the telephone exchange on Museum Street.