Roman Pottery Bibliograhpy - Introduction

Study Group for Roman Pottery (SGRP) SGRP Homepage These webpages are designed to be viewed with the screen resolution set at 800 x 600 and text size at normal. HOW TO Journal of Roman Pottery Studies Volume 4, 1991 Edited by Rob Perrin Roman Pottery Bibliography Edited by R. P. Symonds cont'd Page 89
amp/bbl/dur/ira/nfc/nfg/tsg Mostly this is just a description of the illustrated sherds. (26) Startin, D W A, ‘Excavations at the Old Vicarage, Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, 1971’, Proc Dorset Nat Hist & Archaeol Soc, Vol. 103, 1981, (43-66), 60-61. exc/cem,set/Iron Age-4th, some Med & post-Med amp/bbl/gry/nfc Descriptions of illustrated sherds only. (27) Draper, J & Chaplin, C, Dorchester Excavations, Volume 1, 1982. exc,slr,wbf/wlt/late lst-4th amp/bbl/cts/dur/ets/nfc/nfp/occ/oxm/orc/rhn/sts The volume consists of a series of short reports on several small-scale excavations and watching-briefs within the area of the walled town. Most produced Romano-British material of the same general types found elsewhere within the town. The text concentrates on descriptions of the illustrated sherds. The samian was examined by Hedley Pengelly. (28) Draper, J & Startin, D W A, ‘The Pottery’, in ‘Excavations at South Grove Cottage, Dorchester’, Proc Dorset Nat Hist & Archaeol Soc, Vol 103, 1981, (21-42), 3 1-39. exc/wh/c70 AD-4th/seq amp/bbl/ccc/dur/gry/nfc/nfp/tsg/tng The material is from a trench positioned on the tail of the rampart, close to the probable location of the south gate. The report describes the material recovered from individual features - there is no quantification or synthesis. 709 Bailey, C J & Flattens, E, ‘The Trial Excavation of an Iron Age and Romano-British Site at Quarry Lodden, Bincombe, Dorset’, Proc Dorset Nat Flirt & Archaeol Soc, Vol. 93, 1971, 135-143. exc/rrs/mid Iron Age-early 1st AD, some later dur/ira A trench c2m long on the route of a gas main to Weymouth. Late Roman pottery was found in the plough soil over Durotrigian/early R-B occupation in the form of ‘floors’ of limestone and shale. Sealed by this material were alternating hearths and layers of ash which produced the situlate jars, some hematite-coated, and derivatives typical of ‘Iron Age A’ in this area. Other finds include unfinished, hand-cut shale armlets, worked bone and small quantities of miscellaneous metalwork. 710 Beavis, I, ‘Fresh Finds from the Iron Age and Roman Site at Worbarrow Bay, Tyneham’, Proc Dorset Nat Hist & Archaeol Soc, Vol. 95, 1973, 88. csf/rrs/Iron Age-2nd bbl/dur A small group of sherds found in an eroding scree and cliff section: locally-produced Durotrigian and Black Burnished ware forms. 711 Cunliffe, B & Brown, L, ‘The Later Prehistoric and Rornano-British Pottery’, in Cunliffe, B, Hengistbury Head, Dorset, Volume 1: The Prehistoric and Roman Settlement 3500 BC -AD 500, 1987, 205-302. exc/mjc,trd/late Neolithic-late Roman/ggp,seq,typ alh/amp/bbl/ccc/cts/dur/gab/aga/ira/ait/mvs/nfr/oxr/sts/tng/trb/nri You name it, this report has got it... fabric and form series, quantification discussion, key groups, synthesis, etc... just about everything one could possibly want! Large important assemblages with continuity through time, lots of imports as well as locally-produced wares. Especially useful for the Iron Age-early Roman transitional period in an area where the Roman conquest produces few discernible ceramic changes.		712 Davies, S M & Hawkes, J W, ‘The Iron Age and Romano-British Coarse Pottery’, in Green, C S, Excavations at Poundbury, Volume 1: The Settlements, 1987, 117-123. exc/set/late Iron Age (prob pm-conquest 1st AD)-4th/typ amp/bbl/crm/cts/dur/ets/aga/ira/ktm/lnd/mvs/nfc/nfm/nfp/oxm /orc/ppr/rhn/tng The printed reports on the amphorae, the Pompeian red ware, the Gallo-Belgic wares, the samian, the samian stamps and the mortaria were prepared from comments by D F Williams, V Rigby, I Bird, B Dickinson, B R Hartley and K F Hartley, respectively. Further details of these reports can be found in the microfiche section. There are fabric and form type series for the coarsewares but there is no basic quantification. The discussion includes two tables and a diagram resulting from ‘close-proximity analysis’ and ‘column-wise seriation’. 713 Farrar, R All, ‘The Lost Roman Pottery Site at Bagber, Milton Abbas’, Proc Dorset Nat Hist & Archaeol Soc, VoL 95, 1973, 93- 96. ---/ind/-- bbl A review of the interpretation of the Bagber site by its original excavator, Charles Warne in 1841, and its later re-excavator, J C Mansel-Pleydell, in 1891. The main evidence for pottery production seems to have been a clay-lined pit which had been subjected to intense heat and a quantity of pottery, some 15 sherds and one whole vessel were listed in the original records. Farrar suggests it was an industrial site of some sort, but not a pottery kiln. He also discusses the dating and parallels for the one-handled BB1 flagon. 714 Green, C, ‘Early Iron Age and Roman Remains at Southhill, Radipole Lane, Weymouth’, Proc Dorset Nat Hisi & Archaeol Soc, Vol. 96, 1974, 54-56. csf,slr/rrs/early Iron Age, Durotrigian-later Roman bbl/dur/ira/tsg Small quantities of pottery and burials observed during the construction of a playing field. 715 Green, S, ‘The Pottery’, in Maynard, D, ‘Excavations on a Pipeline near the River Frome, Worgret, Dorset’, Proc Dorset Nat Hist & Archaeol Soc, Vol. 110, 1988, (77-98), 85-88. exc/rur/early- very late or post-Roman bbl/cts/ait/ktm/nfc The fabric and foam descriptions correspond with those of the West Moors report in the same volume (entry no 716). Both fabrics and forms are quantified. 716 Green, S, ‘The Pottery’, in Howard, S. ‘Rescue Excavations of a Roman Enclosure and Field System at West Moors, Dorset, 1988’, Proc Dorset Nat Hist & Archaeol Soc, VoL 110, 1988, (99-116), 107-112. exc/rur/late Iron Age-late 2nd/typ bbl/buf/dur/gry/gro/tsg/sts Includes fabric and foam types series, and quantification, by percentages. 717 Greene, K T, ‘An unusual Roman Glazed Vessel from Woodcuts in Cranbourne Chase’, Proc Dorset Nat Hist & Archaeol Soc, Vol. 93, 1971, 163-166. syn/---/pre-Flavian cgg/tsg A brief note on a sherd illustrated on Plate CXVI of Pitt-Rivers Excavations in Cranbourne Chase, Volume II, with a description, general comments on the ware, its dating, sources, etc. Also includes brief details on the samian found at Woodcuts: a South Gaulish Dr 24/25. and two examples of Dr 29

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