Links
to other pottery or archaeological web-sites
Gallo-Belgic
Pottery in Britain Project
One of the principal aims of the project has been
to compile a corpus of Gallo-Belgic pottery (terra nigra and terra rubra) found
in Britain. An essential part of this work has been to create a digital record
of all known potter name stamps and marks. The data presented in this web site
represents the first stage of dissemination. A monograph outlining the
background to the industry, its forms and fabrics, chronology distribution and
an interpretation of the results is currently in preparation. To view images
of stamps go to 'Browse tables', click on 'Stamps' then click on Stamp no. in
blue.
The
University of Nottingham
Samian Project
Much samian research took place in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Britain, that by Felix Oswald
(1866-1958) is among the most noteworthy and his personal samian collection
(held at the Universities of Durham and Nottingham) remains a key UK reference
collection. Since this pioneering research, few critiques of the discipline have
been undertaken in the light of new scholarship in Roman archaeology and pottery
studies. Instead samian studies have fragmented and become compartmentalised
within wider archaeological reporting.
With support from the AHRC, we are seeking to halt this trend. We
are running two linked research projects the Felix
Oswald Samian Project (AHRC Project Fund) and the Samian
Workshops (Research Workshops Museum and Galleries Fund). Together these
projects aims to establish a recording tool for museum and university
collections, which will allow the research potential of samian collections to be
more easily realised, and put in place mechanisms to encourage an
urgently-needed new generation of samian specialists.
A
Mortarium Bibliography for Roman Britain on
the ADS Search website
The purpose of this mortarium bibliography is
to collate the disparate literature on mortaria in order to make it more
accessible to pottery specialists and other interested individuals. Undertaken
principally between 1995 and 1998, with some updating in 2001 and 2004, the
resulting bibliography is essentially, but not totally, comprehensive for the
last thirty years.
Samian.NET
is aiming at standardizing recording, searching and publishing Roman Samian
ceramics. Its main focus at the moment is towards the South Gaulish Samian
production of the first century AD.
It is an interactive data-base with pictures of rubbings of Ovolo,
Poincons and Stamps. There are over 8,000 individual records with many more
being added daily. Many of these records have been provided by Brenda Dickinson
and Brian Hartley of the Index of Potters' Stamps, Leeds - UK. Additional
materials stem from the records of Geoffrey Dannell (Woodnewton - UK), Allard
Mees (RGZM Mainz - D), Marinus Polak (Radboud University Nijmegen - NL) and
Alain Vernhet (CNRS Millau - F).
When you arrive at the webpage you will be requested to: Please
switch your browser to Unicode viewing
To do this just click on View at the top of your
page and from the drop-down menu select Encoding,
then click on Unicode (UTF-8)
Potsherd -
The
home page of Paul Tyers. An excellent website based on Paul's book 'The Pottery of Roman Britain'
with
good quality photographs of
sherds of various fabrics and forms. A clickable map of locations of pottery
listed in the Roman Pottery Bibliography section of J.R.P.S. Well worth taking
time to explore and add to you your 'Favourites' / 'Bookmark' for re-visiting
time after time.
Understanding
Roman Samian Ware Pottery by Steven Willis
Steven Willis' E-monograph on samian ware published
online by Internet Archaeology.
Ceramic
Petrology Group - The Group meets once or
twice per year. Normally, one of these meetings will be at the
British Museum, London. Meetings usually have a main theme, which may be
chronological, geographical, functional or technological, and in addition space
is sometimes available for short contributions on current research.
Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group -
The PCRG was formed to promote regular
contacts between those with interests in prehistoric ceramics, and combines the
membership of the Iron Age Pottery Research Group, which had been operating in
eastern England since 1976, and the First Millennium BC Ceramic Research Group
covering central southern England since 1985. In 1994, the scope of the Group
was widened to include ceramics from the Neolithic and Earlier Bronze Age
periods also.
Medieval Pottery Research Group - MPRG
was founded in 1975 to bring together people with an interest in the pottery
vessels that were made, traded, and used in Europe between the end of the Roman
period and the 16th century.
Archaeological Ceramic Building Materials Group -
This group acts as a forum for those who are involved in
the processing, analysis and publication of brick and tile from archaeological
excavation and surveys.
Alan Vince Archaeological Consultancy
-
An introduction to Ceramic Petrology, Chemical analysis of ceramics, Pottery
assessment and pottery analysis and publication. The majority of Alan's
work seems to be with Saxon and Medieval pottery, but he does have extensive
experience of Roman Pottery in addition. For an example of the potential
of pictures of pottery on the Internet (regrettably only Medieval as yet) visit
Alan's 'Slide show'
Finds Research
Group AD700-1700 - (FRG)
is a forum for people interested in or researching artefacts of the Saxon,
Viking, Medieval and Post-Medieval periods.
Worcestershire
On-line Fabric Type Series - Worcestershire
Archaeology Unit on-line fabric and form series. At the moment this includes
mostly medieval pottery but they are aiming to put on the entire collection from
the Neolithic to 1900AD as funds become available - Roman pottery is next on the
list ( see Images - page 4, for some Roman Pottery).
Roman
Finds Group - The Roman Finds Group (RFG)
provides a forum for all those with an interest in Roman artefacts. Membership
is drawn from both professional and amateur spheres and new members are always
welcome.
Society
for the Promotion of Roman Studies - The
Roman Society is the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for those
interested in the study of Rome and the Roman Empire. Its scope is wide,
covering Roman history, archaeology, literature and art down to about A.D. 700.
It has a broadly based membership, drawn from over forty countries and from all
ages and walks of life.
The Romano-British Villa at Easton Maudit
- A website devoted to pictures of finds from
the excavation of this Villa in Northamptonshire. Follow click-able 'thumbnail'
pictures to pottery, including samian stamps. If the URL comes up not
available, try at a later time, the site is there and can be accessed. Again
an example of showing pictures of pottery on the Internet
