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Journal of Roman Pottery Studies    Volume 4, 1991 Edited by Rob Perrin

                      Roman Pottery Bibliography - Page 83
      Edited by R. P. Symonds, with indexes by J R. Perrin (see bottom)

Contrary to various predictions made over the course of the past year, it turns out that this fourth volume of the Bibliography is yet again the largest volume so far produced. Over the last three volumes we seem to be achieving a general average of covering roughly 25 out of the 44 counties (including Scotland, North and South Wales and the Channel Islands), and the average number of entries per county is naturally levelling out as we see a gradual decrease in the inclusion of older reports. The overall number of entries has continued to expand, however, with the inclusion this year of two new categories, ‘Reviews in national journals’ and ‘Scientific analyses’, in both of which there are retrospective entries dating back to 1983. A third new category, ‘Lamps, counters, figurines and other pottery objects’, also appears in this volume, but all of the entries in it are additions to entries which first appeared in JRPS 1 or 3.
We are keen to receive feedback of any kind with regard to any part of the Bibliography; we are especially keen to learn whether or not these new sections are useful, and if our readers feel that there might be scope for any other new categories of entries. The only significant change to the format in Volume 5 presently anticipated is that two new contributors, Karen Waugh and Roberta Tomber, will provide material in ‘Foreign publications’ relating to Germany and the Netherlands, and to North Africa, Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean, respectively. Obviously this will improve our coverage of foreign publications, which up to now has been perhaps too heavily dominated by French material. There is still a need to find someone to cover the Iberian peninsula in more detail than we have hitherto managed: volunteers please contact the editor!
As usual, we must urge our readers to contact the relevant contributors to ensure that publications are not missed. If you feel that a given entry in Volume 4 (or in earlier volumes) has been given inadequate or inaccurate treatment, by all means contact either the relevant contributor or the editor to propose an alteration which may appear in the next volume. At some stage in the future we intend to publish a gathering together of all of the Bibliographies so far compiled, and at that stage all such errata would appear together with the entries to which they refer. Such a compilation would also contain composite versions of the present indexes, as well as a new index to authors and places.

Publishers of books or collections of papers having some concern with Roman pottery are likewise urged to send copies to the relevant contributors, to be certain that these works are included. This is the main purpose of the list of addresses below. In this regard we would particularly like to thank the CNRS Centre de Recherches Archéologiques for sending L’Oppidum d’Ambrussum et son territoire (JRPS 3, entry no. 619) and Le Tour du Potier (this volume, entry no. 999) to the editor. Thanks are also due to Fanette Laubenheimer for an advance copy of Les amphores de Bibracte (entry no. 977), and to Stefanie Martin-Kilcher for sending various photocopied papers (in particular, entry nos. 988—90).
The editor also wishes to thank J. R. Perrin for compiling the List of Abbreviations and the Index of Wares/types, Colin Wallace for contributing the errata listed below, and Bettina Hedinger, Colin Wallace, Peter Webster and Mark Wood for a number of helpful comments.

Volume 2, errata:
Entry no. 279 should have included ‘mca’.
In entry no. 196, "11-15 Castle" should read "11-15 Castle Street".
In entry no. 222, "including one Dr 18" should read "including one Dr 1B".
In entry no. 233, ware code "wes" should be "wcs".

Volume 3, errata:
Entry nos. 395, 401, 449, 475, 506, 507, 534 and 558 should all have included "mca" among the ware codes. Entry no. 468 included "mca" erroneously.
In entry no. 527, "Dutnall, D L", should have read "Dartnell, D L".
In entry no. 537, "/80’s-c142-164f’ should have read "/80’s & c142-164/".
In entry no. 538, "rnf" is run together.
In entry no. 540, "The Mortarium Stamps" should have read "‘XXIII. The Mortarium Stamps".
Entry nos. 560 and 562 were contributed by Colin Wallace and Peter Webster, respectively, rather than vice versa.

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