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Journal of Roman Pottery Studies    Volume 3, 1990  Edited by Rob Perrin

                     
Roman Pottery Bibliography - Page 109

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

Monaghan’s work, entry no 557), and around Canterbury are studied both from the chronological and organisational standpoints, the latter using Peacock’s model of modes of production (see entry no 162, Vol 1). Five appendices list the sites studied; the fabrics and their occurrences; the sources of continental and british fabrics; and a selection of assemblages quantified by vessel rim equivalents (E.V.E.’s) by the author. The book is accompanied by 215 pottery illustrations (not a reference type series), and 54 maps depicting distributions of sites and fabrics.
The book is in many ways complementary to Monaghan’s thesis (entry no 557) and to Swan’s seminal study of pottery kilns (entry no 164, Vol 1). It is an abridged version of the author’s doctoral thesis, completed in 1982, and minimally updated for publication.
Location: various (listed in appendix)

559 Rice, P M, Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook, University of Chicago Press, 1987.
A recent American work which contains useful summaries of ethnographic approaches and a comprehensive range of physio- chemical techniques for scientific analysis. Examples are drawn from a very wide geographical and chronological spectrum, including both material from Roman Britain and pottery ‘pubic covers’ from Brazil.

560 Roberts, W I IVth, Romano-Saxon Pottery, BAR British Series 106, 1982.
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rsx
This volume piles up an enormous amount of rubbish through a very broad definition of its subject, which does tend to obscure the fact that ‘rsx’ really comes down to some of the decorated products of Hadham and other East Anglian kilns. See N P Wickenden, Excavations at Great Dunmow: A Romano-British Small Town in the Trinovantian Civitas, 1988, 71-73, for current thoughts on dating.

+561 Swan, V G, Pottery in Roman Britain, Fourth edition, Shire Archaeology, Princes Risborough, Bucks., 1988.
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alh/amp/arh(type)/aom/ats/bbl/bb2/blg/ccc/cgg/clc/chn/ cts/dal/drb/egg/eyk/glm/glz/had/hpb/kww/lgm/lsh/lyc/mca/ mek/mem/mhm/nfc/nfr/nkg/nvc/nvm/occ/orc/owc/oxm/pev/ pff/ppr/prs/ret/rgd/rhn/rsm/rst/rwc/svr/svv/swm/upc/vrm/ vrr/wxm/con/cra/ebo/gab/mrb(German)/grt/ite/mnv/nfp/ngg 
(‘col tronconique’)/wrm/samian mould/slm/soc/som/spc/waw 
A considerable amount of effort and thought has obviously gone into this fourth edition of what was already a ‘market-leading’ popular book. It now contains more drawings and has been re-written to incorporate a great deal of new information. It serves its purpose, as a basic guide aimed at the general public, admirably.

562 Webster, P V (with contributions by G B Dannell), Roman Samian Ware: Background Notes, 3rd Edition, Dept. of Extra- Mural Studies, University College, Cardiff, 1987.
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sts/mvs/cts/ets/tsg
Third edition of an introductory booklet. Text has been revised and expanded from earlier editions with some revision of dates. South Gaulish decorative details (alter Knorr) appear at full scale and numbered (Knorr’s are 1:2 and un-numbered).

National journal articles
Richard Pollard & (*) R P Symonds
563 Evans, J, ‘Graffiti and the evidence of literacy and portray use in Roman Britain’, Archaeol J 144 (for 1987), 1988, 191-204.
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"The distribution of graffiti is examined and conclusions drawn about varying levels of literacy on different types of site. The pattern established provides a contrast with the evidence from monumental inscriptions and gives new information about the use of pottery in Roman Britain" (author’s abstract).
Some quotes from the paper
"The graffiti in the survey, some 400 in all, are taken from the ‘Roman Britain’ section of Britannia Volumes 1-4".
"The study has suggested that there are few regional variations in the use of graffiti but considerable variations depending upon class of site... It is clear that pottery was regarded as an item of intrinsic worth".
"There seems no evidence of decline in basic literacy in the later Roman period".

*564 Frere, S S, with a contribution by B R Hartley (‘The 
Samian’), ‘Brandon Camp, Herefordshire’, Britannia XVIII, 1987, (49- 92), 80-92. Pottery examined by Donald Bailey (‘The Lamp’), A C Anderson (‘The Other Pottery’), K F Hartley (‘Mortaria’), D P S Peacock (‘Amphorae’) and E L Morris (‘Iron Age Pottery’).
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amp/ass/sts/lyc/egg/ira/tng/ngm/mro/lcg/buf/svr
The description of the site and the composition of the pottery shows that this was an interesting body of material. It would have been more interesting if it could have been published in a form which made it more easily comparable with material from similarly-dated deposits. Martin Millett attempts comparisons with three assemblages of almost precisely the same date in the paper which follows this one in the same volume (see entry no. 566 below), but the style of presentation here, a sort of type series with lists of descriptions, does not lend itself easily to quantified comparative studies. A table or two would have helped.
Location: not given

565 Fulford, M G, ‘Byzantium and Britain: a Mediterranean perspective on Post-Roman Imports in Western Britain and Ireland’, Medieval Archaeol 33, 1989, 1-6.
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amp/ars/Phocaean Red Slipped ware
This paper contrasts post-Roman imports from western Britain and Ireland (dominated by E Mediterranean vessels) with W Mediterranean assemblages, to make a strong case for direct contacts between these islands and the Byzantine world of the late 5th-mid 6th centuries, AD.

*566 Millett, M, ‘Boudicca, the first Coichester Potters’ Shop, and the dating of Neronian Samian’, Britannia XVIII, 1987,93-123.
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sts
Abstracted from the author’s D.Phil. thesis, this is a detailed comparison of the samian in Boudiccan destruction levels principally at Colchester, Verulamium and London. The objective of the study was to try to discover to what extent

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