Nene Valley Colour Coated Ware

Nene Valley Colour Coated Ware (or Castor Ware[1]) is a type of Romano-British ceramic produced in the lower Nene Valley centred on Durobrivae (Water Newton)[2] from the mid-2nd to 4th centuries AD.

[3] Pottery manufacture locally started in the mid first century AD, with workshops associated with the Roman fort at Longthorpe, Peterborough[1][4] with an expansion for several miles along the Nene valley between Wansford and Peterborough in the second century.

[9] The NVCC ceramic is a hard, smooth-textured fabric with finely irregular fracture.

The slip has a variable colour, dark brown to black, mottled lighter orange or orange-brown where thinner.

[2] Hunt scenes in barbotine decoration are well known from the earlier part of the industry, with the use of whorls instead of these beginning in the 3rd century AD.