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Roman pottery was made in various ways from using crushed shell, shale, old broken pots crushed. This was the added to the clay and mixed to stop it from reducing in the kiln or shrinking. This type of pottery tends to be much coarser and grit like surface. However it all depends on the geology of the clay been used as each will vary greatly

Mortaria was a little differ this was produced on a wheel and the grit added to the bowl to make grinding foodstuff much easier. However they also added iron slag and other rough material.

Pottery was either handmade or turn on a wheel it was up to the person who was producing the pottery for sale which he did prefer.

So really no hard or fast rule on how the pot was produced so long as it functions and can be used.

Wrote by archaeologist of 20 years and pottery specialist from a museum in UK

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