The Roman Pottery of Kent by Dr Richard J. Pollard
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988
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Title page - iii, ISBN etc iv,
List of Figures ix,
A Note on the Pottery Illustrations xi,
Acknowledgments xiii, Abbreviations
xiv, Bibliography
xv-xxxiii Dust jacket with
picture of pottery
CHAPTER 1: Objectives
I. The study of Romano-British pottery: Background
II. The
Aims of the Study
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CHAPTER 2: Problems and Methods
I. The selection of a study region
II. The selection of sites and assemblages for analysis
III. Site classification
IV. Analysis of the pottery
1. Fabric analysis
2. Formal analysis
3. Quantification
4. ‘Fine’ and ‘Coarse’
wares
V. Interpretation
1. Single
assemblages
2. Inter-assemblage
comparison
VI. The demonstration of spatial trends
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CHAPTER 3: The Late Iron Age
I. Introduction
II. The pottery of the ‘Aylesford-Swarling Culture’
III. Pottery style-zones in late Iron Age Kent
IV. Imported pottery in late Iron Age Kent, and the isolation
of the latest indigenous wares
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CHAPTER 4: Pottery of the Roman Period in Kent
Introduction
I. The Pre-Flavian to early Flavian
Period, c. A.D. 43—75
1.
The fine wares
2. The coarse wares
of west Kent
3. The coarse wares
of east Kent
4. The coarse wares
of central-northern Kent
5. The significance
of the Claudian conquest for pottery studies in Kent
II. The mid-Flavian to Trajanic Period,
c. A.D.
75—120
1. The fine
wares
2. The coarse wares
of west Kent
3. The coarse wares
of east Kent
4. The coarse wares
of central-northern Kent
III. The Hadrianic to Severan Period,
c. A.D. 120—220
1. The fine
wares
2. The coarse
wares of west Kent
3. The coarse
wares of east Kent
4. The coarse wares of central-northern Kent
IV. Severus Alexander to the Britannic Empire, c.
A.D. 220—300 .
1. The fine
wares
2. The coarse
wares of west Kent
3. The coarse
wares of east Kent
4. The coarse
wares of central-northern Kent
V. The fourth and early fifth centuries
1. The fine
wares
2. The coarse
wares of west Kent
3. The coarse
wares of east Kent
4. The coarse
wares of central-northern Kent
VI. The end of roman pottery in Kent
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CHAPTER 5: The Production of Pottery in Kent: History
I. Introduction
II. The pottery industry of north
Kent: Thameside, the Cliffe peninsula and the Medway marshes
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Background
2.
Origins
3.
Developments in the second century
4.
Diversification and decline: from the late second century onwards
III. The Canterbury pottery industry
1.
Introduction
2. Origins
3. Expansion
and standardisation: the Flavian to early Antonine period .
4. The
decline of the Canterbury industry in the second half of the second
century . .
IV. Other production sites
1. Known
kilns
2. Sites
suggested by wasters
3. Areas of
production suggested by distributions of wares
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CHAPTER 6: The Production of Pottery in Kent: Aspects of
Organisation
I. Modes of production
II. Household production
III. Household industries
1.
Known kilns
2.
Postulated household industries: regional traders
IV. Individual workshops
1. Kiln
sites within nucleations
2.
Isolated kiln sites
V. Nucleated workshops
1. The
Thames-Medway Industry
2.
Canterbury
VI. Estate production
1.
Otford
2.
Eccles
3.
Other estates
VII. Relationships between potteries in Kent and
beyond: stylistic considerations
VIII. The migration of potters: itinerancy
and single
movements . .
IX. The association of pottery production
with other industries . .
1.
Brick and tile manufacture
2. The
salt industry
3.
Other industries
X. Relationships between producer and
consumer
CHAPTER 7: Conclusions
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APPENDIX 1: The Sites
I. Sites studied at first
hand
II. Sites studied through
publications, within the main study area
III. Major sites outside of the main study
area
APPENDIX 2: The Fabrics: date-ranges; regions within study area;
references to description and discussion
I. Fine wares
II. Coarse wares
III. Mortaria
APPENDIX 3: The Fabrics: Corpora of known examples within the main study
area
I. Fine wares
II. Coarse wares
III. Mortaria
APPENDIX 4: Key to Sources of Roman Pottery in Kent (Figs. 54—68) .
I. Continental
sources
II. British sources
APPENDIX 5: Quantification Tables
I. Introduction
II. First century A.D.
III. First to mid-second century A.D.
IV. Late first to second century
A.D.
V. Mid-second to mid-third
century A.D.
VI. Third century A.D.
VII. Third to early fifth century A.D.
VIII. Fourth to early fifth century A.D.
IX. Mixed deposits
General Index
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