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Roman samian bowl, with graffito
About half (5 sherds) of a large Eastern Gaulish Dr31 bowl made of a good orange / pink fabric with an orange slip.There is a clear thumb and finger mark from slip dipping the bowl. The graffito is on the footring and reads PRI CRV[CO retrograde. This seems to be the potter Cruco of Rheinzabern, a less well known potter from the area. Probably a late Antonine bowl AD 160-200.
Dr 31 is a bowl
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
56.214A/29.1
Find Information
Site Name: Bear House Field II, Caerleon
Grid Reference: ST 33 91
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1955 / Aug - Sep
Notes: Field adjoins the south-west side of the legionary fortress : 'A' material is from Courtyard House (Civil Settlement). Context: Building VIII. At 93: occupation below top rough paving.
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