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RESEARCH
FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDY OF
ROMAN POTTERY IN WESTERN BRITAIN
Edited by Paul Booth & Steven Willis on behalf of
The Study Group for Roman Pottery, Western Regional Group
October 1997; selectively revised 2002
Contents:
1. Introduction
1.1 The background and origin of this Research Framework
1.2 Geographical area
1.3 An absence of existing frameworks
1.4 Recent work and publication
2. Research Infrastructure; Recording and Reporting Standards; Methodology
2.1 Standards
2.2 Project planning
2.3 Site and assemblage formation
2.4 Vessel types and quantification
2.5 Compatibility of reporting on specialist wares
2.6 Regional fabric and form series
3. Research and Publication Priorities: Industries / kilns
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Mancetter-Hartshill
3.3 Severn Valley Ware
3.4 The Malvern industry
3.5 North Wiltshire
3.6 Savernake
3.7 Black-Burnished Ware
3.8 Gabbroic Wares of the South-West Peninsula
3.9 'Caerleon Ware'
3.10 The Oxford Area Industry
4. Major Research Issues: Chronology
4.1 The Iron Age - Roman interface
4.2 The late Roman to early Saxon transition
5. Major Research Issues: Military Pottery
5.1 Broad research questions
5.2 Military Pottery and 'Romanization'
5.3 Wales
6. Major Research Issues: Urban Assemblages
6.1 Urban assemblages and reliable sampling
7. Major Research Issues: Rural Assemblages
7.1 An existing imbalance within fieldwork
7.2 Sampling rural (lower-status) sites
7.3 The context of rural assemblages
7.4 Exploiting information from 'Evaluations'
7.5 Publication priorities
8. Major Research Issues: Trade
8.1 Military and civilian trade
8.2 Distributions of the major regional industries
9. Major Research Issues: Functional Trends
9.1 Functional trends in pottery: questions and research potential
10. Major Research Issues: 'Romanization'
10.1 The potential of pottery evidence
11. Major Research Issues: Site Status
11.1 Potential and objectives
12. Major Research Issues: Social Identity
12.1 Pottery distributions and social identity
13. Priorities for Publication
13.1 Sites with complete or substantially complete pottery reports
13.2 Excavations with important assemblages requiring publication
13.3 Assemblages from relatively recent excavations with important material, publication of which is expected or desirable
Bibliography
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