Bricks, tiles and coarse pottery and occasionally firebricks have been made from the clay beds in this formation.
Of particular importance is the evidence of the local manufacture of coarse pottery and indication that the garrison used hand-held artillery pieces.
Impasto is a type of coarse Etruscan pottery.
At Wroxeter, as early as 1912, Bushe-Fox clearly appreciated the need to arrange coarse pottery in a dated sequence.
The clay is still used commercially for making bricks, tiles, and coarse pottery in places such as Michelmersh in Hampshire.
He'd had to pick one or the other, of course, unless he wanted to mash his nose against the coarse pottery.
The findings include hand axe, cleaver, pebble tools (chopper-chopping), core, blade, flake, point, celt, ring stones, microlithics, coarse pottery, grooving marks, cave art (painting & carving) etc.
First phase (c. 2920 BCE) at Burzahom is marked by mud plastered pit dwellings, coarse pottery and stone tools.
The discovery of kilns also shows that coarse pottery was produced in the village during Roman times.
Both fine ceramics and coarse pottery were discovered, which suggests that this area was settled during the Late Bronze Age, even if there is no evidence to the municipal structures.