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droveway. The report was prepared while the author was a
student at Leicester University on the post-graduate Finds Course. The pottery catalogue is restricted to the illustrated vessels (60 in all), ordered by phase. Fabrics A to X and AX are described (although AX is medieval), including well-known wares like Nene Valley cc. Strangely these are rarely used in the catalogue. Fabrics F and J are samian ware not seen by B R Hartley. Some of the grey wares are likely to be Horningsea ware. There is no quantification. Evidently the supervision by the course tutors was not really adequate. 782 West, S, ‘The Iron Age pottery’, and ‘The Romano-British pottery’, in West, S, West Stow, Suffolk: The Prehistoric and Romano-British Occupation, E Anglian Archaeol, Vol 48, 1990, 60-8 and 76-96, respectively. Also includes ‘Potters’ stamps’, by V Rigby, 86-9 and ‘Samian’, by B Hartley & B Dickinson, 89-91. exc/ptp,klnl3rd-lst BC-c60 AD(LA.), 80-mid 2nd(R-B)/typ blg/btb/crb/cts/ets/fcp/ira/lom/lnd/mvs/rnf/sts/stv/waw/gab (stamped)/stv/incense burner This multi-period site starts with Mesolithic, Neolithic and Iron Age occupation, the latter extending to the mid 1st century AD (there are 21 pottery illustrations for I.A. Phase I; 27 for I.A. Phase II; and 23 for LA. Phase III), followed by an important early fine ware production site, which was itself succeeded by Anglo-Saxon occupation. The report details 5 excavated kilns and the remains of two simple buildings, and publishes a type series of the pottery, comprising 26 types, with 115 illustrations supplemented by photographs of decorations and potters’ stamps. Quantification is confined to rim counts, minimizing flagons as a share of the assemblage. While the bulk of the pottery is coarse ware, there is a significant proportion of derivatives of samian and/or Gallo-Belgic forms and decorated beakers. Decoration includes compass scribing, ring stamps, rouletting, combed lines, barbotine dots and painting. An important stamp report by V Rigby is also included. (NB. See Review by M J Darling, this issue) Warwickshire Paul Booth 783 Booth, P, ‘The Roman pottery’, in, ‘Excavations at 64 Bleachfield Street, Alcester, Warwickshire, 1981’, Trans Birmingham & Warwickshire Archaeol Soc, Vol 93, 1983-4 (publ.1989), (9-32), 25-30. exc/twn/mainly ?Neronian-late 2nd,early 3rd (later material post-Roman contexts)/seq amp/bbl/cts/grc/osc/grf/?ira/lcg/mlv/mhm/mvs/nvc/ngm/orc/ oxw/svv/sts/ass/wxni? A total of 1150 sherds, including a few good groups; the report uses the standardised fabric series (for the county). 784 Booth, P, ‘Pottery’, in, ‘Roman Store Buildings at Alcester’, Trans Birmingham & Warwickshire Archaeol Soc, Vol 94, 1985-6 (publ. 1989), (63-106), 86-88. exc,slr/twn/late 2nd-4th bbl/cts/ets/gry/lsh/mhm/nvc/oxm/orc/rhn/svv A small group, most of it poorly stratified. Quantification is by sherd count, but the report does not use the county’s standardised fabric series, since it was completed in 1980. 785 Ferguson, R, ‘Roman pottery’, in Cracknell, 5, ‘Roman Alcester Recent Archaeological Excavations’, Trans Birmingham & Warwickshire Archaeol Soc, Vol 94, 1985-6 (publ. 1989), (1-62), 16-22, 33-37, 39, 40-44, 45-49, 51, 52, 55-56. exc,wbf/twn,wlt/various, late lst-4th bbl/buf/ccc/cts/ets/ira/lsh/lcg/mlv/mhm/mvs/mca/nvc/ngml oxm/orc/oxw/owc/rhn/rgh/svv/sts/ass/vrr/wsx/pkg(pink grogged) |
This is pottery from a series of small sites, the reports being spread
though the publication. It uses the standardised fabric series for
Warwickshire and consistent quantification throughout. Most of the groups
are quite small, so there is no overall synthesis or discussion. Wiltshire Nick Cooper 786 Borthwick, AM (‘Other wares’) & Pengelly, H, (‘Samian’), in Hurst, H K, Dortnell, D L & Fisher, C, ‘Excavations at Box Roman Villa, 1967-8’, Wiltshire Archaeol & Nat Hist Mag, Vol 81, 1987, 19-51. exc/vil/mid 2nd & late 3rd-4th bbl/nfr/nwl/wlg/oxr/rhn/tsg/svv/wht Only 224 sherds are recorded, none are illustrated, and they are used purely as dating evidence. 787 Davies, S, ‘The pottery’, in Rahtz, P. ‘Bower Chalice 1959: Excavations at Great Ditch Banks and Middle Chase Ditch’, Wiltshire Archaeol & Nat Hist Mag, VoL 83, 1990, (1-49), 30-47. exc/rur/lst-4th, but mainly 1st bbl/gry/gro/nfc/nfg/nfp/osd/tsg/svr The pottery is from late Iron Age ditches containing evidence of continuing occupation in the area through to the late Roman period. A total of 51 vessels are illustrated, from nine contexts/groups. 788 Johnson, P & Walters, B, ‘Exploratory Excavations of Roman Buildings at Cherhill and Manningford Brace’, Wiltshire Archaeol & Nat Hist Mag, Vol. 82, 1988, 77-91. exc/vil/2nd-4th nwl "Basic domestic wares of the 2nd-4th centuries", all unstratified in the upper levels and in medieval robber trenches. 789 Phillips, B, ‘Starveall Farm, Romano-British Villa’, Wiltshire Archaeol Hist Mag, Vol 74115, 1979/80 (publ. 1981), (40-55), 47-50. exc/vil/3rd & 4th alh/bbl/nfr/nfc/nwl/orc 16 vessels are illustrated in stratigraphical groups of 3rd and 4th century date. Yorkshire Sally Stow 790 Cardwell, P, ‘Excavations at Cat Babbleton Farm, Ganton, North Yorkshire, 1986’, Yorkshire Archaeol J, Vol. 61, 1989, (15-27), 22, 24. exc/pit alignment/2nd-4th/usf cra/hcs/lcl/thr/nor A total of 27 sherds from pit fillings. 791 Evans, J, ‘All Yorkshire is Divided into Three Parts; Social Aspects of Later Roman Pottery Distribution in Yorkshire’, in Price, J & Wilson, P R (eds), with C S Briggs and S J Hardman, Recent Research in Roman Yorkshire, Brit Archaeol Rep Brit Ser 193, 1988, 323-337. syn/---/mostly 3rd & 4th dal/hsm/lcl/kna/nor 792 Hayes, R H, ‘Stonygate Romano-British Site’, and ‘Roman Norton, Excavations and Discoveries’, in Hayes, R H, North-East Yorkshire Studies: Archaeological Papers, Roman Antiq |
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