No 6. Amphora
Date: 90BC – 10BC
Why is it important: Evidence of high-status occupation in Late Iron Age.
These fragments of an Amphora were discovered in a dig near Warblington church alongside many of the items in the Warblington cabinet.
Amphorae of the type Dressel 1B were predominantly for wine-carrying and were made from around the turn of the first century B.C. until the last decade of the century. It is in a reddish-buff fabric, and it contains particularly distinctive small dark green crystals of augite. This is the “black sand” fabric associated with the region around the Bay of Naples, especially with the areas surrounding the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Most likely, this amphora arrived in Britain as a result of trade with continental Europe during the late Iron Age - before the Romans themselves arrived in Britain.
Find this is the Warblington Roman Villa Cabinet