Suggested
reading books and internet resources
Pottery
in Roman Britain
(Shire Archaeology) by Guy de la Bedoyere
Samian
Ware
(Shire Archaeology) by Guy de la Bedoyere
See Roman Samian Ware by Guy de la Bedoyere
on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKuuFrbcKo
Roman
Samian Pottery in Britain by Peter Webster
C.B.A. Practical Handbook in Archaeology 13
The
Roman Pottery of Kent by
Richard Pollard
Doctoral
thesis completed in 1982, published 1988 by Kent Archaeological Society
now out print, 13 copies in various Kent Lending Library Reference
Collections.
available
online at http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/RPofK/Contents.htm
The
National Roman Fabric Reference Collection: a Handbook
now
out of print but available online at http://romanpotterystudy.org.uk/nrfrc/base/index.php
Romano-British
Coarse Pottery: A Students Guide now
out of print but available online http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-281-1/dissemination/pdf/cba_rr_006.pdf
The
Pottery of Roman Britain
by Paul Tyers now out of print but most text available
online below
Potsherd
http://potsherd.net/atlas/potsherd
The homepage 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.
Römisch-Germanisches
Zentralmuseum https://www1.rgzm.de/samian/home/frames.htm
The Website comprises a suite of databases concerned with samian ware.
Their aim is to standardize the recording and publishing of samian ware
in such a way that the data is available both for comparative
identification, and more significantly for scientific analysis using
statistical and mapping tools. All have their individual search masks
appropriate to the questions likely to require resolution. The databases
comprise the following:
- Names on Terra Sigillata / Corpus Vasorum Arretinorum (merged into one
database)
- Name marked decorated vessels
- Ovolo Vessels
The Study Group for
Roman Pottery (SGRP) http://romanpotterystudy.org/
was formed in 1971 to further the study of pottery of the Roman period
in Britain. It provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of
the latest research, and of issues affecting the subject and its
practitioners. The annual conference and regional meetings promote
contact between specialists and the opportunity to handle pottery from
different regions
Be sure to look at the Group's Journal
of Roman Pottery Studies that is published by Oxbow Books
for the Study Group for Roman Pottery. It publishes papers on Roman
pottery and related subjects. In addition to papers on material
from Britain, the Journal includes studies from across the Roman
empire.
Each paper submitted to
the Journal is peer-reviewed by two referees (of course this process
ensures that reviewers are fully independent of the authors, for
example, not affiliated with the same institution). In addition, an
Editorial Board supports the Editor to ensure that the Journal’s
output is of the highest academic quality.
Volumes 1 to 6 can be downloaded via links. Volumes 7 to 16
are available from Oxbow books
with contents pages downloadable on the website,
The Archaeology of Roman
London Volume 5 - CBA Research Report 98 A
dated corpus of early Roman pottery from the City of London
by Barbara Davies, Beth
Richardson and Roberta Tomber
Download a PDF copy from:- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/cba_rr/rr98.cfm
Upchurch and Thameside Roman
Pottery by Jason Monaghan BAR British Series 173 pub.
1987
A ceramic typology for northern Kent, first to third centuries A.D. http://tedconnell.org.uk/AFW/03/00.htm
Grog-tempered 'Belgic'
Pottery of South-eastern England by
By Isobel Thompson
Originally published as BAR British Series 108 1982 (now out of print). http://tedconnell.org.uk/AFW/02/00.htm
Worcestershire
Ceramics Online Database has
been enhanced to include locally produced medieval form types, and
fabric and form information for the most commonly identified
post-medieval and modern fabrics, as well as concordance information
for other type series in surrounding counties. In addition, a
software upgrade means that data is more accessible and the site is
now also optimised for use on mobile devices. To ensure that users get
the most out of these improvement, it is recommended that the 'Help'
pages are consulted before using the site for the first time.
The database you see now was designed to make the
complete pottery fabric and form type series for Worcestershire
accessible on-line. It currently contains information on all the
pottery fabrics used and made in Worcestershire from the Neolithic (c
4000 BC) to the early post-medieval period (c 1650 AD) and the most
commonly identified fabrics of later post-medieval and modern
date. For each type of pottery the ceramic database
contains information on:
Gloucester
Pottery Archive The
Gloucester pottery fabric type series includes samples of pottery and
tile fabrics dating to the Roman, medieval and post-medieval periods
from Gloucester and the surrounding districts. It was created
in the 1970s by the Gloucester Archaeology Unit, and has formed the
foundation of most work on archaeological ceramics in the area since
then.
The type series is
currently housed in Gloucester
City Museum. This web resource was created to make information on
the fabric type series more widely available, to incorporate data on
the distribution of some of the principal wares in Gloucestershire,
and to link the Gloucester series to other web sites dealing with
Roman and Medieval pottery fabrics. The individual pages on the
fabrics represented in the collection include images of the sherds in
the collection, brief descriptions with notes on source and dating,
and links to other resources where available.
The pages on the individual fabrics can be accessed
through tabulated listings of Roman
or Medieval and later
fabrics, which can be sorted or filtered, or through a set of sortable
'cards' (Roman or
Medieval and later).
This web site was developed by Jane Timby and Paul Tyers
from data collected at Gloucester City Museum between January and
March 2017. We are grateful to David Rice for facilitating access to
the Gloucester TF collection.