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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. |
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. syn/(all site types)/lst-4th "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’). exc/mil/Neronian/usf 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. syn 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. syn/mjc,destruction levels/Claudian-Neronian 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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