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Welcome to the sixth set of entries for the Roman Pottery
Bibliography (succeeding the cumulative index printed in the Journal of
Roman Pottery Studies volume 6, pages 129-52). Here can be found details
of publications concerning the counties of Cheshire, Co Durham, Cornwall,
Derbyshire, Devon, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire*, Kent, Leicestershire,
Lincolnshire*, Nottinghamshire, Somerset*, Staffordshire *, Sussex*,
Tyne & Wear and Yorkshire (* denotes that only coverage of the last
of the 1980s material is present), plus Scotland, North and South Wales and
lone items from Cambridgeshire and Middlesex; coverage of other counties
will follow in the next set of entries that are in preparation (along with
the next list of errata). Please note that Avon, Cleveland and Humberside,
which have all appeared in past Bibliographies, are now absorbed back
into other counties following local government reorganisation. Some entries
for Books, Journals, Reviews, Scientific Analysis, Foreign Publications and
Theses are also given below.
Among the sites covered are Caerleon, Caersws,
Chester-le-Street, Cirencester, Exeter, Gloucester, Ilchester, Keston,
Prestatyn, Rivenhall, Silchester, South Shields, Thorpe Thewles, Usk,
Wilderspool and York. Foreign publications include the new journal Annales
de Pegasus and other works on samian, eg Huld-Zetsche on mid 2nd century
Trier production and Mees on the dating of Rheinzabern.
The development of the Bibliography can be followed through
reading Robin Symonds’ editorials for it in JRPS volumes I to 5;
suffice it to say here that the Roman Pottery Bibliography is intended
to be ‘a bibliography of recent publications which in any serious way
contribute to the study of Roman pottery in Britain ... from 1982 to the
present’ (JRPS 1, 1986, 80).
For each entry, there are bibliographic details in the strict
sense (author, title etc). Then codes are used for the subject matter, site
type, wares represented and any qualifications the
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compilers may wish to add. Next, the comments allow the
contributors to say explicitly what the relevance of a particular entry
might be. Finally the location of the pottery reported on, if known, is
given. Expansions of the codes used can be found at the very end of this set
of entries, before (and within) the Index.
There are other bibliographic resources for Roman pottery
specialists, giving only titles and brief comments on new publications. The British
Archaeological Abstracts are now continued as the British and Irish
Archaeological Bibliography. The bibliography produced by the Rei
Cretariae Romanae Fautores in its newsletters is a listing of selected
titles, without details of the wares represented or comments on significant
aspects. Those from 1990 onwards are available on Allard Mees’ Roman
pottery web pages (http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/
~rzentral /anadecom/newhome.htm). Relatively easier to obtain are Colette
Bémont’ s ‘Chronique de céramologie de la Gaule’, in the journal Revue
des Etudes Anciennes (cf JRPS 4, entry 942) and the German
Archaeological Institute (the DAT)’ s Archaölogisches Bibliographie. The
French bibliographic publication Instrumentum (Bulletin du Groupe de
travail européen sur l’artisanat et les productions manufacturées dans l’Antiquité)
offers coverage of stamps, graffiti, pipeclay figurines and lamps, as well
as trade and transport (twice-yearly since 1995: http://www.instrumentum.net).
Resources on-line include the British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography
to 1992 (via http://www.britarch.ac.uk) and an amphora bibliography
(http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/amphoras/ bib/amph-bib.htm).
The views expressed in the comments sections below are those of
the contributors and are not to be taken as those of the Study Group for
Roman Pottery.
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