Roman Pottery Bibliograhpy - J.R.P.S. Vol 3, page 108

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a series of stratified groups. Seven lamp fragments are described by Richard Brewer (p. 96). Location: Legionary Museum, Caerleon 552 Webster, P V, ‘The pottery’, in Burnham, B C & M B, ‘Recent survey work on the fort and vicus at Pumpsaint’, Carmarthenshire Antiquary XXII, 1986, (3-13), 7-12. exc,slr/mil/c75-160 asg/sts/nri/bbl/vrm/lcl/mlv A small collection which includes an anomalous pit group with late 1st century samian and coarse pottery of the mid 2nd century. Further excavation may explain the divergence or perhaps all are the result of tidying up on demolition of the fort in c160. This is the only pottery so far published from the Pumpsaint (Dolaucothi) fort. Location: Carmarthen Museum Channel Islands Jason Monaghan 553 Burns, R, ‘L’époque Gallo-Romaine. Un nouveau chapitre de l’histoire de Guernsey’, SFECAG: Actes du Congrés de Caen, 28- 31 mai, 1987, 1987, 29-38. exc,csf/rrs,set amp/cta/ass/blg/ira/tng/grc/mro A useful cross-section of pottery from Guernsey. Location: Guernsey Museum 554 Monaghan, J, ‘Découvertes maritimes provenant du baillage de Guernsey’, SFECAG: Actes du Congrés de Caen, 28-31 mai, 1987, 1987, 39-43. exc,csf/mar (underwater)/trd amp/ass/mrb/ira/bbl/grf/grc/mro Location: Guernsey Maritime Trust Books Malcolm Lyne, () Richard Pollard, (+) R P Symonds, (♦)Peter Webster, &* (♣) Colin Wallace +555 De la Bédoyère, G, Samian Ware, Shire Archaeology, Princes Risborough, Bucks, 1988. syn/---/lst-3rd sts/mvs/cts/ets/ats/cls/tsg This is the fourth slim volume to appear on samian ware since 1971 (the others have been Arretine and Samian Pottery, by Catherine Johns (1971, re-published 1977), An Introduction to Roman Samian Ware, by Margaret Bulmer (now Ward) (1980), and Roman Samian Ware: Background Notes, by Peter Webster with contributions by Geoff Dannell (1983; revised 3rd edition, 1987, entry no. 562 below). This seems intended to replace Miss Johns’ book, using a similar style of presentation supplemented by more drawings and photographs, although it is lacking a general figure showing the range of types together. There is a good set of line-drawings showing how mould-decoration was accomplished. Such an approach seems guaranteed to make the book popular and successful as an educational tool; when is there going to be a proper academic volume on this subject, in English? 556 Merrifield, R, The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, London, 1987. syn A readable and carefully argued account, which seeks to advance the archaeological investigation of superstitious ritual activity. Of especial note here are the many pottery deposits in Chapter 2, ‘Offerings to earth and water in pre-Roman and Roman times’.		+557 Monaghan, J, Upchurch and Thameside Roman Pottery: A ceramic typology for northern Kent, first to third centuries AD., B.A.R. British Series 173, Oxford, 1987. exc,col,syn/kln,ptp/lst-3rd/typ rgd/bb2/obb/1cg/lnd/upc/nkt/nkg This is indeed the "long overdue" study of North Kent pottery production whose need was recognised by Vivien Swan in the first edition of Pottery in Roman Britain (see entry 561, below). It is a very competent and comprehensive summary of the nature of the industry and its products, providing a reasoned and well- illustrated type-series. It also contains very useful chapters on ‘The geographical, social and economic background’, ‘Production sites’, ‘Production’ (including a much-needed discussion of the common names "BB2", "Upchurch Ware", "Hoo Ware", "Streak Burnished Ware", "Upchurch Painted Ware", "London Ware" and "Thames Shelly Ware"), ‘Distribution’ and ‘The History of the Industries’. It is clear that in particular many of the both fine and coarse grey wares previously thought to have been made at London or Colchester may in fact have come from North Kent: while further analyses on all of these wares are awaited, perhaps the types in question should be referred to as N. Kent/London/Essex wares - for dating purposes they might as well all be part of a single industry, like Central Gaul! 558 Pollard, R J, The Roman Pottery of Kent,* Kent Archaeological Society Monograph Series V, 1988. syn/(all site types)/lst BC-5th AD/seq amp/ach/asg/ass/arr/tsg/ccc/hpb/clc/lyc/nvc/nfc/owc/orc/pff/ egg/mrb/rhn/nvr/rgh/occ/mca/cgg/glz/blg/ira/tng/trb/nri/btb/ crb/pph/rgd/bb1/bb2/obb/grf/grc/grg/gro/ncg/gry/heg/lcg/clg/ har/hgg/nkg/ret/esh/lsh/shg/sxs/flg/ctm/clm/ewm/lwm/gbm/ glm/ham/ktm/lom/lgm/Inm/mhm/?mem/nvm/ngm/oxm/rbm/ sem/vrm/mro/buf/hft/rnf/nvs/oxp/wht/fcp/osf/osc/hax/lox/ wsx/haw/wcs/osd/alh/ars/arl/esx/had/lcl/lnd/lrh/mek/ngp/pev/ ppr/rsx/upc/vrr/wse/(an extensive range of wares found in Kent are discussed and described; samian and amphorae are presented in less detail than local and R-B wares, but their role in supply is discussed in depth). The overall objective of the study is the elucidation of the whole network of pottery production, importation and distribution within a spatially-defined area throughout the whole of the Roman period, insofar as the available data allows this. The study of continuity and change over time is integral to the work, and to this end the late Iron Age and the 5th century are also examined in the main, it is the period from the mid 1st to the early 5th centuries AD that is the focus of attention. The major portion of this study is devoted to the description of the pottery itself and of the industries that produced it within Kent and south-east London. The aim of the descriptive chapters is to present a generalised pattern of spatial variation and temporal development in pottery forms and fabrics, and in the composition of assemblages as a whole. The south-east of Britain, unlike the northern military zone, generally does not provide a large body of data relating to absolute chronology. However, a relative pottery chronology has been established, from which ceramic "phases" may be induced. These phases are described at assemblage level, stressing the typical components of such assemblages, when ever possible in a quantified form. Jaccard’s correlation coefficient is used to assist inter-assemblage comparison. The pottery industries of Kent, including the clusters of kiln-sites around the Thames and Medway estuaries (see also

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