Study Group for Roman Pottery
Annual General Meeting Minutes
Saturday 6th April 2002
King Alfred’s University College, Winchester

1.0 Minutes of 2001 AGM:
1.1 Section 6 should have read: (corrections in italics) "Ted Connell has prepared the figures from 01.01.2000 to 31.12.2000 and apologises that the audit, by M.Lyne, has still to be arranged. The figures were accepted as a true record, (proposed Vivien Swan, seconded Joyce Pullinger). A copy of the figures is attached to the minutes. Generally the SGRP is in good financial health, although the publication of future Journals will make a dent in this."
1.2 With these alterations the minutes were accepted as a true record, (proposed by Rob Perrin and seconded by Vivien Swan).
2.0 Apologies for absence:
Geoff Dannell and Laura Griffin.
3.0 Matters arising:
The committee decided celebrations to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the group were not to proceed.
4.0 President’s report:
4.1 Rob Perrin extended his thanks on behalf of all SGRP members to Kayt Brown for organising the Winchester 2002 annual conference.
4.2 He went on to say that it had been an interesting year at English Heritage (EH), although there was a reluctance within that organisation to fund more pottery work. Several new initiatives however, have been set up which may be beneficial to archaeological in general and pottery studies in particular. These include an all party parliamentary archaeological pressure group, shortened to: APPAG and the ‘Aggregates Levy’ whereby money will be raised by mineral extraction (perhaps up to £5 million per annum) to fund nature/heritage and countryside projects.
4.3 Finally Rob thanked all the committee members for their hard work since the previous AGM.
5.0 Hon. Secretary’s report
5.1 Alice Lyons stated that the SGRP membership currently stood at 135 with 11 new members this year. Welcome to: Ray MacBride, James Gerrard, Chris Lydamore, Robert Philpot, Alex Whitehead, Paul Wilkinson, Keith Bolton, Roland Beevor, Sue Nelson, Martin Pitts and Kate Dennet. If you are new member and your name is not on this list please accept my apologies – you will be announced at future meetings.
5.2 Alice also reported that since the last AGM two Newsletters and one conference mailing had been distributed to the membership. In addition to this an electronic distribution list (using e-mail) has been constructed which at the present time encompasses approximately half the membership. An advert for the annual conference was placed on the Brit-arch distribution list, as well as on the SGRP web page.
5.3 Vivien Swan thanked Alice for her work over the previous year.
6.0 Hon. Treasurer’s report
6.1 Ted Connell presented the accounts for 01.01.01 and 31.12.01 (see attached sheet) which remain unaudited. These were accepted as a true and accurate record (proposed by Jude Plouviez and seconded by Scott Martin).
6.2 It was proposed by Ted Connell and seconded by Fiona Seeley that Malcolm Lyne should remain as auditor.
7.0 Editor’s report
7.1 Volume 9-Rossington Bridge-has been published and distributed to the membership.
7.2 Volume 10-The Amphora Volume-is with the publisher and is due out in autumn.
7.3 Volume 11-Research Frameworks-will go to the publisher this autumn.
7.4 Volume 12-including ‘unusual forms’ although more contributions needed-is in preparation.
7.5 Volume 13-The Mortarium Bibliography by Roberta Tomber-is in preparation.
7.6 Rob Perrin thanked Jude Plouviez and Pam Irving for "getting things moving ".
7.7 The committee is now actively seeking new contributions for future journals.
7.8 Vivien Swan announced that when the journal backlog is removed the process of reviewing recent pottery report publications will begin again.

Bibliography
8.1 Colin Wallace continues work on this project. He thanked Annette Hancocks for her recent contributions. That there is still a big gap over the London area however, which is a problem.
8.2 Colin asked the AGM to approve him approaching the Archaeological Data Service, in York, to curate the bibliography when complete.

9.0 SGRP Projects
9.1 Rob Perrin thanked Maggi Darling for all her hard work and explained the difficulties in completing the project.
9.2 Maggi suggested that the Student’s Guide and Young’s Guidelines be pulled together and reprinted in short runs to keep up to date with technological changes.
9.3 Rob Perrin stated that there has been no official response from EH to the Minimum Archive Guidelines that the SGRP presented several years ago.

Elections
10.1 Jane Evans was appointed an ordinary committee member (proposed Annette Hancocks, seconded Nick Cooper).
10.2 Geff Dannell was appointed an ordinary committee member (proposed Vivien Swan, seconded Fiona Seeley).
10.3 As no new nominations were received for president it was proposed that Rob continue in that role until the 2003 AGM. (Proposed Scott Martin, seconded Rachael Seager-Smith).

Future Meetings
The Roman Archaeology Conference 3-6th April 2003. A morning session has been allocated to the SGRP in memorial of the late Graham Webster, Colin Wallace has asked several members to contribute to this session: Maggi Darling, Jerry Evans, Steve Willis, Vivien Swan, Paul Bidwell, Nick Cooper and Rob Perrin.
11.2 SGRP Annual Conference 2003. VS reported that the Claude Gibb Hall, University of Northumbria, is booked for the weekend of 4-6th July. Trips to Walls End and South Shields have been organised. To be convened jointly by Alex Croome and Vivien Swan. Vivien did ask people to book their train tickets at least 2-3 months in advance to avoid high costs.
11.3 SGRP Annual Conference 2004. FS (convener) reported that provisionally it is looking good for London. The London Archive Resource Centre (LARC) has opened which would be an ideal centre for the conference. As for the 2003 conference this would be an off campus conference, a situation that the committee felt would not be a problem. Late June or very early July were thought to be the best date to meet.
SGRP Annual Conference 2005. Suggestions include Edinburgh, Oxford, Cardiff and Derby, Doncaster, York, Leeds , Wakefield and Lancaster. Alice Lyons suggested the possibility of a joint conference with our prehistoric colleagues.
AOB
12.1 ‘Promoting Roman Finds: context and theory’ July 6-7th 2002. University of Durham.
Robin Symonds announced the possibility of winning research grants for work in France, contact: i.src@wanadoo.fr for further details.
Romano-British Caterick. CBA pre-publication offer.
12.3Fautores Rome 29th September-6th October 2003. Web page or contact Vivien Swan.
12.4French Pot Group 9-12th May Bayeux Normandy, contact Rob Perrin for details.
12.5 Rachael Seager –Smith query the position of the SGRP prize for promising students, in memorial of Graham Webster. Rob Perrin stated this has not been forgotten and will be discussed at the next committee meeting.
12.6 Annette Hancocks asked any members interested in resurrecting the regional pottery study groups to contact her.

Alice Lyons, Hon Secretary SGRP, Norfolk Archaeological Unit, Spire House, 
13-15 Cathedral Street, Norwich NR1 1LU
Tel: 01603 878219  E-mail: alice.lyons.mus@norfolk .gov.uk

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