Samian ware pottery fragment

A piece of red terra cotta pottery from the edge of a pot, decorated on one side with a moulded pattern. This was excavated from the Roman bathhouse at Bothwellhaugh. It is an example of Samian ware, a distinctive red-coloured pottery mass produced in factories in Italy and Gaul, spanning much of the period of the Roman Empire.

Museum reference:
MLC-1991-163
Associated with:
Bothwellhaugh Bathhouse


Dimensions:
height: 39mm
width: 29mm
depth: 11mm
Materials:
Earthenware

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