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- Title
A late Roman 'Nene Valley colour-coated ware' kiln site beside the River Witham at Lincoln in 2009.
- Authors
Fiske, Hugh G.; Rowlandson, Ian M.; Monteil, G.
- Abstract
This excavation beside the River Witham in Lincoln confirmed the presence of a predominantly late 3rd to 4th century AD pottery production site which has been previously noted in The Pottery Kilns of Roman Britain (Swan 1984, LINCOLN (1)) and more fully online at www.romankilns.net. Large quantities of kiln waste clearly show it was producing a range of colour-coated wares along with utilitarian grey wares; the range of products mostly consisted of bowls of various sizes and forms, beakers and jars, along with a few more specialised vessels such as Castor boxes and lids. Many of the colour-coated vessels present were similar in both form and fabric to those produced in the Lower Nene Valley industry near modern Peterborough. Pottery production on the site appears to have ended by the late 4th century AD. The presence of a range of colour-coated pottery wasters in forms and fabric hitherto considered to have been produced in the Lower Nene Valley has wide reaching implications for our understanding of the significance and distribution of pottery produced at Lincoln. The site raises questions about wares that have traditionally been attributed to the Nene Valley: which valley were the colour-coated pots from Lincoln produced in? How much did the potters move or were moved around (Buckland 2004)? Can we be sure we are provenancing the work of potters working in one specific area? Or are we sometimes seeing the work of a school of potters and their apprentices working at a variety of different sites?
- Subjects
LINCOLN (England); PETERBOROUGH (England); KILNS; POTSHERDS; POTTERY; ROMANS; POTTERS; APPRENTICES
- Publication
Journal of Roman Pottery Studies, 2023, Vol 20, p93
- ISSN
0958-3491
- Publication type
Article