Samian ware

A piece of Samian ware pottery - mainly made in what is now France - features what looks like a Christmas reindeer.

A piece of Samian ware pottery -mainly made in what is now France - features what looks like a Christmas reindeer.

Molehills there have produced a piece of Roman Samian ware pottery, a jet bead and a decorative bronze dolphin.

The subject is Roman Samian ware and other Roman pottery.

Metal detectors have been used to discover large quantities of lead, and other finds include high quality Samian ware pottery made in Gaul - now southern France - and exported all over the Roman Empire.

Among the discoveries is Samian ware pottery, made in Gaul - now southern France - and exported across the Roman Empire.

Collingwood was an early archaeological theorist, knowledge systems in the production of terra sigillata, potters' stamps on Samian ware and their implications for the Roman provincial economy, Sulpicia Lepidina and Elizabeth Custer as a cross-cultural analogy for the social role of women on a military frontier, and devotional pathways in late antique and early medieval Rome.

There's even a complete dinner service in Samian ware, probably dumped on the fort's rubbish heap because it arrived from Rome in a less than serviceable condition.

Many wealthy Romans liked to own decorated Samian ware cups, plates, bowls and vases made of special red clay shipped to Britain from Gaul (France).

The polished Samian ware came from France, the black pottery from Germany, and other earthenware from the east and west Midlands.

The newspaper finds follow the discovery of a piece of samian ware - a type of glossy red pottery from the Roman era, as well as pieces of 13th Century stained glass - in April this year.