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Normally a hard, slightly rough fabric, creamy-white (10YR 8/4) and with occasional pieces of limestone up to 3 mm across, but these have more usually dissolved out, leaving voids.
Thin sectioning shows similarities with Rhodian Fabric 1, though the diagnostic brown minerals could not be identified with the same confidence and minerals such as pyroxene are much rarer. The white colour suggests the use of a different clay with less iron, though a Rhodian source is again a strong possibility (Peacock & Williams, 1986: Class 9).
Equivalent to: RHO AM 2 of the National Roman Fabric Reference Collection (Tomber & Dore, 1998: 113)
i Rhodian Type