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St Remy ware
[Ar].

Fine pottery, often with relief decoration, in a white fabric with a green or yellow (lead) glaze, made at St-Remy-en-Rollat, near Vichy. Small jars, bowls, and flagons were imported into Britain in the 1st century. Imitations were made in Britain up to the mid 2nd century.

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strigil
[Ar].

Thin narrow curved scraper of horn, bone, or metal used by Greek and Roman bathers in the hot rooms of their bath-houses to cleanse the skin.

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strike-a-light
[Ar].

A type of flint tool in the form of a rod or bar with a slightly pointed end that is often considered to have been used in conjunction with a piece of suitable stone (e.g. iron pyrites) for making sparks with which to start a fire.

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striking platform
[Ge].

Point on a flint core, at right angles to the intended line of the flake, which is struck to detach this flake.

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string marks
[De].

The marks on the base of a vessel caused by the potter detaching the pot from the wheel by means of a wire or string.

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strip fields
[MC].

Long, narrow fields, characteristic of the medieval and later
OPEN FIELD SYSTEM
of agriculture.