Number of Groups forming the Sample:

• Military sites - 16 samples
• Extra-mural occupation at military sites - 6 samples
• Major civil sites - 37 samples
• Smaller centres - 31 samples
• Religious / ritual sites - 6 samples
• Industrial sites - 1 sample
• Rural sites - 39 samples
• Other sites - 1 sample

Key to Context Type abbreviations:
C, constructional contexts; D, ditch fill contexts; DG, mainly ditches and gullies; E, enclosure ditch fill contexts; F, floors; G, gully/ies; L, layer; LD, levelling and/or demolition; MD, mainly ditch fill contexts; MM, midden or midden like deposit; MU, make-up layers; O, oven; P, pit/s; PG, penannular gully fills; PH, post holes, including post holes relating to buildings/structures; Q, fill of quarry pit/s; R, road surfaces and silts; S, slot/s; SD, fill of shallow depression; SL, silt layer/s; ST, fill/s of stream channel; V, various; VI, various industrial; VS, various settlement deposits; W, well/wells.

For references see Table 25

Notes:
DNA (under Sample Size) denotes that Data was Not Available.

i. Identifiably residual sherds (that is items belonging to a vessel first represented in an earlier period) were excluded from the calculations relating to these groups by the reporter (Taylor 1991, 369).

ii. The sequences and pottery from the 1974 and 1977 excavations could not be reliably divided into anything other than temporally broad phases. The figures here are those for each of the areas as a whole, though in the case of the 1974 area only data for the 'second phase' of activity in the Roman period is available. There is evidently a very modest amount of fourth century pottery amongst the sample from 1977 but the excavator notes (Hinchliffe with Sparey Green 1985, 181) that occupation had essentially ceased in this vicinity from c. AD 300. There is proportionally more fourth century pottery amongst the 1974 sample, relating to some activity in this vicinity (west of the 1977 area) at this time, though the assemblage as a whole is mainly of earlier date. The majority of the samian from the 1974 area was East Gaulish; c. 38% of the samian recovered from the 1977 area was East Gaulish. The percentage levels of samian amongst the two samples documented above are comparatively high despite the fact that the date-range of the groups extends into the period when samian was becoming a much rarer import to Britain.

iii. See Pollard 1994, Table 8 Part II.

iv. See Pollard 1994, Table 8 Part II.

v. A late group with an apparently high residual content of samian, included here for comparative purposes.

vi. May include a re-deposited element.

For further notes on some of the groups appearing in the table see the notes accompanying Table 23.

For figures including amphorae see Table 26.