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Object 34. Area 2, midden seg. 4006, SF184. Ring. 

 A common find with a variety of uses (cf Manning 1985, 

 140). 38mm diameter. 



Object 35. Area 2, midden seg. 4065, 426, Double 

 tapering rod with curled end in the manner which nail 

 shank tips sometimes curl over. However, if this were a 

 nail the shank would not taper towards the head end. It is 

 probable, therefore, that this is part of a more complex 

 object, The double tapering nature suggests awl, but awl 

 ends are usually clenched, not curled over, if they protrude 

 from the handle. Length 88mm. 



Object 36. Area 2, midden seg. 4017, SF222. Square 

 strip fragment or possible washer/rove, with central, 

 circular perforation. 27 x 32mm, perforation c.9mm 

 diameter. May not be Romano-British. 



Object 37. Area 2, midden seg. 4021, SF403. Oval 

 shoe cleat of common Romano-British type. Overall 

 length c.50mm. 



Object 38. Area 2, midden seg. 4028. Strip/bar, 

 featureless. Appears modern rather than Romano-British. 

 Dimensions 58 x 37 x 10mm. 



Object 39. Area 2, layer 4001, SF104. Long rod, 

 cross-section unknown. Approximately even thickness. 

 Length 206mm. Thickness c.5mm (from radiograph). 



Object 40. Area 2, layer 4001, SF1 13. Long tapering 

 rod, cross-section rectangular at greatest end, but more 

 rounded at finer end. Incomplete at both ends. Extant 

 length 1 17mm, cross section tapers from 5 x 4mm to 2.5 

 x 2.5mm. 



Object 42. Area 2, midden seg. 4033, SF385. 

 Fragment in very poor condition. Cleaning revealed no 

 clear form or structure. Maximum dimensions from 

 radiograph 41 x 35mm. 



ROMAN GLASS 



byH.E.M. Cool 



Three fragments of Roman glass were found both 

 in the typical greenish bubbly glass of the 4th 

 century AD. Only object 1 can be attributed to a 

 form. It is the rim of a large funnel-mouthed jug or 

 cylindrical bottle (see Price and Cottam 1998, 163, 

 fig 72 and 204 fig. 93). The fragment does not retain 

 sufficient diagnostic features to attribute it to a 

 precise form. The presence of a jug or bottle at 

 Wayside Farm is of some interest as it is another 

 example of the apparent preference rural sites seem 

 to show for closed glass vessels in the fourth century 

 (Cool and Baxter 1999, 89) 



Fig. 14.1. (Object 1). Area 2, SF440. Rim 

 fragment, jug or bottle. Funnel mouth, rim edge 

 fire-rounded. Thick trail applied below rim edge. 

 Rim diameter c. 75mm. 



Object 2. Area 1, layer 3249, SF441.Two body 

 fragments. 



IRONWORKING SLAGS 



byJ.M. Mills 



Forty-four fragments weighing c.2kg were 

 recovered. The assemblage comprised smithing slag, 

 plano-convex 'hearth bottom' fragments, hearth 

 lining, fuel ash slag and clinker. These are similar 

 to those commonly found on sites of Romano- 

 British date and are probably contemporaneous 

 with the other artefacts recovered from deposits on 

 the site. This relatively small quantity may be seen 

 as a background scatter, given that 50% of the slag 

 appears to have been imported to the site and 

 deposited within the midden. 



THE LATE IRON AGE AND 

 ROMANO-BRITISH POTTERY 



by Mark Corney 



INTRODUCTION 



The Iron Age and Romano-British pottery 

 assemblage from the site totalled 3080 sherds 

 (52,404g). Of this total 246 sherds can be ascribed 

 to the later Iron Age to early Roman period, the 

 remainder being of later Romano-British date. All 

 of the sherds have been examined for this report 

 and grouped according to fabric and form. 



At an early stage of the examination it became 

 clear that the assemblage falls into two distinct 

 chronological groups. An early phase, probably 

 falling between the 3rd century BC to the mid-late 

 1st century AD and a very late Roman group 

 probably deposited during the first quarter of the 

 5 th century. Both chronological groups are also 

 indicated in the dating of the non-ferrous metalwork 

 and coin assemblages. The large quantity of late 

 Roman fine wares are dominated by products of 

 the Oxfordshire Industry (Young 1977), 

 supplemented by a smaller amount of New Forest 

 Ware (Fulford 1975a) and provide a firm 

 chronological series. As a consequence, the fine 

 wares are dealt with in some detail to provide a 

 dateable sequence and to allow the coarse wares to 

 be developed into a regional late Roman type series. 

 Although many of the contexts are actually 



