EXCAVATIONS IN 1999 ON LAND ADJACENT TO WAYSIDE FARM, DEVIZES 

 Table 7: Fine ware forms expressed as EVE's 



EVE 



EVE% 



Flagons 



3 



3.2 



Table 8: Coarse ware forms expressed as EVE's 



EVE 



EVE% 



Jars 



82.8 

 74.4 



Beakers 



12.2 



13.6 



Bowls 



71.5 



79.8 



Bowls/dishes 



Beakers 



18.8 



3.4 



16.9 



3.1 



187 



Platters 



2.8 



3.1 



Miscellaneous 



6.2 



5.6 



Coarse Wares 



The coarse wares are dominated by jars, mainly 

 everted-rim types with a smaller number of hooked- 

 rim types, followed by bowls/dishes of a restricted 

 range of types. The forms for the coarse wares have 

 been related to the Greyhound Yard type series 

 (Woodward er al. 1993). Although devised for the 

 DOR BBI fabrics, this type series encompasses all 

 of the forms identified at Wayside Farm as is used 

 here for convenience and to avoid an unnecessary 

 duplication of a typology seriation. 



Jars 



Everted-rim jars (Greyhound Yard type 3) dominate 

 this category (61.2% by EVE). These occur in 

 fabrics DOR BBI, GS 1 , GS 2 and OXID S 1 . There 

 is a general tendency for the rims to be typologically 

 late in profile, with the rim diameter being equal to 

 or larger than the maximum diameter of the vessel 

 body and have a generally flattened appearance. 



Hooked-rim jars represent 21.6% by EVE of 

 the total coarse ware assemblage. Occurring in 

 fabrics AH RE, OVWWH and HAR SH, these are 

 all recognisable very late Roman forms with fine 

 horizontal rilling over the body of the vessel. None 

 of the vessels of this type in fabrics GS 1 and GS 2 

 have the body rilling, although the feature is present 

 on the single vessel of this form in fabric OXID S2. 



particular trait. The occurrence of type 20 is more 

 restricted, appearing in fabric groups DOR BBI, 

 GS 1 , GS 2 with one example in OXID S 1 . 



Pedestal-base Beakers 



This is a rare form, comprising only 3.1% by EVE 

 of the coarse ware assemblage. It occurs only in 

 fabric GS 1 and two complete examples were 

 recovered from late Roman inhumation burials 

 F3129 (Inhumation 1) andF3131 (Inhumation 2) . 

 The type is crudely made and has a large pedestal- 

 base, a wide, straight-sided body, and a rim of 

 diameter similar to the base (Figure 22, 34-35). The 

 form appears to be loosely based on beaker forms 

 produced at late Roman fine-ware production 

 centres such the New Forest form 27sp and Oxford 

 forms C20, although lacking the indentations so 

 characteristic of the fine ware prototypes. 



Miscellaneous forms 



In this category (5.6% by EVE) are flagons in GS 

 1, probably copying a well-known form produced 

 at a number of late Roman production centres such 

 as Alice Holt and the New Forest (Lyne and Jeffries, 

 1979, type 8.10-11; Fulford 1975, type 20); two 

 handled tankards of Greyhound Yard type 9 in DOR 

 BBI; an indented beaker of type 28 in DOR BBI 

 and one colander in GS1. 



Bowls/dishes 



This category is represented by two principle forms; 

 deep bowls with drop-flange rims (GreyhoundYard 

 type 25) and shallow plain-rim dishes of type 20. 

 Vessels of type 25 form 1 1 .9% by EVE and type 20 

 5.0% by EVE. Type 25 is present in fabrics DOR 

 BBI, GS 1, GS 2, OXID SI, OXID S2 and AH 

 RE, with many examples having markedly well- 

 developed and low flange - a feature noted as a late 

 characteristic at GreyhoundYard (Woodward et al. 

 1993) - although the great variation seen in this 

 very common late Roman form means that caution 

 should be exercised in making too much of this 



Discussion of the Fine and Coarse Ware Forms 

 The late Roman assemblage from Wayside Farm is 

 not easy to interpret on the basis of the forms 

 represented. The very high percentage of fine wares 

 and general rarity of vessels such as mortaria, large 

 storage vessels and colanders etc. would appear to 

 suggest an atypical assemblage where forms 

 normally associated with ordinary domestic 

 activities are largely absent. This pattern and 

 observation must be of significance in the overall 

 interpretation of the excavated areas and is 

 examined in more detail in the concluding 

 discussion. 



