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assemblages in three such places, all so clearly dated
to the same historical event, would be of similar compositions. It seems
that there were "considerable problems in the use of coarse pottery for
these purposes", so the study concentrates on samian ware, and in
particular on the proportions of specific forms, stamps and decorative
details present in the assemblages. The results show that while the contents
of several assemblages are indeed closely comparable, one in particular, the
First Colchester Potters’ Shop, appears to have been somewhat earlier than
the others. The latest Colchester material included in the study was
excavated in 1978: a number of potentially useful Boudiccan deposits have
been excavated in the years since then, and it will be an interesting
exercise to see if they conform to the patterns established in this paper.
It is a pity that this work could not have encompassed coarse wares: it
seems the bad old days before systematic quantification of all excavated
pottery are not so long ago! This sort of approach needs to be applied to
more difficult problems, such as the comparability of entire ceramic
assemblages in the later Roman period. |
571 Dance, Jonathan, ‘A Concordance of the Hermet and Oswald figure-
types on samian’, Undergraduate Dissertation, University of London
Institute of Archaeology, 1986. tsg The aim of this work was to establish: i) which figure-type categories are exclusive to a particular sigillata industry. ii) those categories "preferred" by an industry, ie. types for which one industry has 65% or more of all the variants of figure- types. A comprehensive concordance is listed. Errors and ambiguities in Oswald’s references together with any "problems" in the attempted correspondence are noted. On the basis of Oswald’s figure-types, (with amendments from Ricken and Fischer), 64 out of 231 categories could be allocated to one industry. 572 Evans, Jeremy, ‘Aspects of later Roman pottery assemblages in northern England’, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Bradford, 1986. This study examined pottery supply in northern England during the 3rd and 4th centuries as well as other aspects of pottery assemblages in the region. The pottery kilns of the East Yorkshire industries were characterized by Neutron Activation Analysis. The results were employed to check visually discriminated fabric groups. Quantified data from 15 sites across the north was collected by the author and together with the limited published quantitative data was used to examine the distribution, marketing and competition between fabric types in the region. Variations of functional types and proportion of finewares present both between types of sites and through time was considered. The study found that pottery supply to the northern frontier seemed to have been organized by different mechanisms in different periods : "In the second century much of the pottery used on the frontier would appear to have been produced by the military themselves whilst in the third century and earlier fourth century free market mechanisms would seem to have operated, but in the late fourth-early fifth centuries some form of ‘military contract’ would appear to have taken over supply". Consistent differences between the East Yorkshire region and the rest of the study area were identified. These may reflect differences extant during the Iron Age. The author was able to isolate indications of some ‘de-Romanization’ in late Roman assemblages. 573 Faiers, Jane, Research subject: "The socio-economic aspects of the Roman pottery industry in Britain in the early second century arising from a detailed study of a large assemblage from Hadrianic construction deposits found during the excavation of the south west corner of the baths insula Wroxeter (including the Piscina and Macellum)", M.Phil. Thesis, University of London Institute of Archaeology, in preparation. 3 cwt of pottery is being examined. exc/mjc/(Wroxeter) post-military to Hadrianic amp/cta/asg/ass/sts/cts/kww/rgh/occ/mca/ira/pph/rgd/bbl/ emb/grf/grc/grg/lcg/rst/glm/lom/mhm/sem/vrm/wrm/wxm/ buf/hft/rnf/osf/osc/lox/wsx/wcs/osd/mlv/svv/vrr "It is hoped that this study will provide a type series for Wroxeter as a whole during this period and also information on distribution/factories/kilns, whilst also recording changes in type from earlier deposits". 574 Fitzpatrick, Andrew, ‘Cross-Channel relations in the British |
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