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Roman Pottery Bibliography - Page 95

      Edited by  R. P. Symonds, with indexes by J R. Perrin  (see bottom)

405 Hawkes, J, ‘Roman Coarse Pottery’, in Johnstone, J & Bowden, M, Berkshire Arch. Journal 72, 1983-85, (17-52), 41-45.
---/rrs,fls/latelst-3rd-4th
amp/tsg/bbl/sft/osc/alh/nfr/oxr
A very little samian (by Joanna Bird) mainly Antonine. The assemblage suggests a low economic status, but it is noted that bad preservation may have contributed towards this impression. A fabric series is presented in the text but illustrations are on fiche only.

Buckinghamshire
Pauline Marney
406 Carstairs, P. ‘Iron Age Occupation at Long Crendon’, Records of Buckinghamshire 26, 1984, (92-101), 95-101.
exc/rrs/late Iron Age & throughout the Roman period cts/owc/orc/pph/gro/gry/wht/osd
Unstratified, therefore no detailed analysis.
Location: Mrs Parker-Smith

407 Cauvain, P & S, ‘The Coarse Pottery’, in Chess Valley Arch. & Hist. Soc., ‘A Report on Excavations at Bury Farm, Amersham’, Records of Buckinghamshire 27, 1985, (119-128), 124-126.
exc/rrs?/mid 2nd - mid 3rd
cts/ets/orc?/pph/grf/grg/gry/lcg/blk/brn/oxm/buf/mf/red/osf/
osc/lox/osd/lcl
The pot descriptions are extremely basic with no attempt to place their origins. It is, however, very straightforward.
Location: County Museum, Aylesbury

408 Dunnett, R, ‘Excavations near Mount Wood, Chenies’, Records of Buckinghamshire 27, 1985, (107-118), 110-1 15. 
exc,flw/com-drying oven, small pits and an infant burial/largely 2nd-3rd, with some residual 1st, ‘Belgic’ types, and some 4th
amp/sts/cts/ets/tsg/nvc/occ/blg/grf/grc/grg/gry/lcg/shg/blk/brn/
mro/mf/osf/osc/lox/wsx/wcs/lcl 
Largely unstratified pottery.
Location: County Museum, Aylesbury

409 Parminter, Y, ‘The Coarse Pottery’, in Allen, D, ‘Excavations at Bierton 1979’, Records of Buckinghamshire 28, 1986, (1-120), 57, 59-68.
exc/rrs,vil/late Iron Age & mid 1st - mid 4th
amp/sts/mvs/cts/ets/tsg/clc/nvc/ira/tng/trb/btb/crb/pph/bbl/
bb2/ncg/lcg/hgg/shg/flg (late I.A.)/lnm/nvm/oxm/vrm/hft/mf/
esx/gft/had/lcg/oxr/stv/vrr
As the Roman fabric descriptions are on fiche this report is difficult to use. It contains a good section on the ‘Belgic’ material. Absence of securely stratified Roman contexts.
Location: County Museum, Aylesbury

Cornwall
Paul Bidwell
410 Bidwell, P T, Carlyon, P M, Dickinson, B M, Greene, K T & Parker, A J, ‘The Pottery’, in Canyon, P M, ‘Finds from the Earthwork at Carvossa, Probus’, Cornish Arch. 26, 1987, (103-141), 107- 121.
exc/rrs/Neronian - later 2nd with some later/usf
amp/ass/arr?/sts/mvs/cts/ets/ccc/clc?/nvc/orc/rgh/bbl/grg/gbm/ ktm?/lgm?/nfm?/oxm/vrm/mro/hft/mf/gbr
Pottery from what appears to have been a native site, unusually rich in imports and Romano-British pottery not in the native tradition. This perhaps suggests the presence of a
Roman fort or official post nearby.
Location: County Museum, Truro

411 Quinnell, H, ‘Cornwall during the Iron Age and the Roman
period’, Cornish Arch. 25, 1986, 111-134.
syn/---
gbr
Page 129: a brief but useful consideration of Romano-British native pottery in Cornwall.

412 Quinnell, H, ‘Comish Gabbroic Pottery: the Development of
a Hypothesis’, Cornish Arch. 26, 1987, 7-12.
syn/---
gbr
Considers gabbroic pottery in prehistoric and Roman periods and problems in locating production sites.

413 Smith, G H, ‘The Lizard Project, Landscape Survey, 1978-83’, Cornish Arch. 26, 1987, 13-68.
flw/---
gbr
Finds from fieldwalking which include gabbroic ware, not all sherds of which are necessarily of the Romano-British period.
Location: County Museum, Truro

Derbyshire
Richard Pollard
414 Brassington, M, ‘The principal finds’, in ‘Exploratory excavations at Little Chester, Derby’, Derbyshire Arch. J. 102, 1982 (1983), (74-83), 80-82.
exc/mil/lst-4th/usf
sts/cts/nvc/orc/occ/bbl/emb/gry/lcg/esh/lsh?/nthm?/nvm(?cc)/
oxm(cc)/wsx/drb
15 illustrations, plus a catalogue of illustrated & unillustrated material.
Location: Derby Museum

415 Dalton, K, ‘The Pottery’, in Bramwell, D, Dalton, K, Drinkwater, J F, Hassall, M, Lorimer, K L & Mackreth, D F, ‘Excavations at Poole’s Cavern, Buxton: an Interim Report’, Derbyshire Arch. J. 103, 1983 (1984), (47-50), 49-74.
exc/rur/late 1st - late 2nd, early 3rd/usf
ass/tsg/rgh/occ/ira/bbl/gry/mro/osf/drb/syk
An "interim, qualitative statement". Vessel count based on "counting the different rims". 18 illustrations. Other mortaria: ‘creamy’ fabric. Contains an unusual variety of wares for the Peak District.
Location: do (?) K Dalton, 35 Macclesfield Road, Buxton SK17 9AH

416 Dool, J & Wheeler, H, et a!, ‘Roman Derby - Excavations 1968- 1983’, Derbyshire Arch. Journal 105, 1985 (1986),  (1-348 - whole volume); pottery reports by G Simpson (samian), B R Hartley (samian), J Dool, B R Dickinson (samian), M Todd, R S Birss, & K F Hartley, 26-30, 36-37,256-268; for major pottery reports see entry nos. 417-421.
exc/mil,cem/early Iron Age - 4th/usf
amp/asg/ass/sts/mvs/cts/ets/ccc/nvc/orc/rhn/occ/blg/ira/btb/
crb/ pph/bbl/grf/lcg/rst/esh/mhm/mro (sem or glm)/hft/
mf/wht/osf/osc/lox/drb/drc/gft/lnd/syk/swp
Includes reports on the Strutts Park Excavations (J Dool), 15-32; the Racecourse Cemetery (H M Wheeler), 222-280; and the West Gate Excavations (R Annable & H M Wheeler), 33-37.

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