English: Two rim sherds from Roman 1st-century greyware butt or girth beakers. These rims are of a coarse, sandy fabric, and it is thought that they were made at Rowlands Castle, a known local Roman pottery manufacturing site. The examples are similar to those at Fishbourne Roman palace, and are estimated (by comparison with those in Cunliffe 1971, 189; refs. 63, 64) to date to around AD 43-75, as does those found in the vicinity.

The wider sherd (A) is of a light grey colour and has a sandy yellow tinge on the inner surface, while being much more prevalent in the darker specks which so categorize this type of grey ware. Some soil and grass fragments remain trapped beneath the rim. The second sherd (B) presents a darker grey colouring, with some red-orange beneath. There is an incised line just beneath where the rim itself meets the body of the sherd.

Rim A: L.: 86.75mm, H.: 34.8mm, W.: 46.7mm, Th.:7.5mm, Wt.: 27.8g

Rim B: L.: 61.6mm, H.: 35.35mm, W.: 61.15mm, Th.: 8.1mm, Wt.: 24.175g