The stamped wheel-turned pottery of fourth century Britain and its relationship to the stamped hand-made pottery of the post-Roman period in Britain
The thesis seeks to discern possible reasons for the reappearance of stamped wheel-turned pottery in fourth-century Roman Britain; to establish whether the stamp motifs demonstrate regional or local variations; to attempt to identify sources of inspiration for the motifs; and lastly to test whether it is possible to demonstrate the ongoing usage of motifs from the fourth century to the fifth and sixth. It has grown out of work for the Archive of Anglo-Saxon Pottery Stamps (or AASPS, a project to record every stamp impression on early Anglo-Saxon ceramics). I became interested in âRomano-Saxonâ pottery when making casts for AASPS. It soon became apparent that Romano-Saxon pottery was only a small section of the fourth-century stamping tradition and this PhD gave me the opportunity to study it in depth. The first chapter describes past research in this area and the third considers what is known of the history of Britain in the fourth century, while Chapter 2 explains the methods used in the analyses. Chapter 4 presents earlier episodes of stamped pottery to demonstrate that they did not inspire the fourth centuryâs potters. Chapter 5 considers the production centres from which this pottery came and endeavours
Briscoe, D. C.
The stamped wheel-turned pottery of fourth century Britain and its relationship to the stamped hand-made pottery of the post-Roman period in Britain. The thesis seeks to discern possible reasons for the reappearance of stamped wheel-turned pottery in fourth-century Roman Britain; to establish whether the stamp motifs demonstrate regional or local variations; to attempt to identify sources of inspiration for the motifs; and lastly to test whether it is possible to demonstrate the ongoing usage of motifs from the fourth century to the fifth and sixth. It has grown out of work for the Archive of Anglo-Saxon Pottery Stamps (or AASPS, a project to record every stamp impression on early Anglo-Saxon ceramics). I became interested in âRomano-Saxonâ pottery when making casts for AASPS. It soon became apparent that Romano-Saxon pottery was only a small section of the fourth-century stamping tradition and this PhD gave me the opportunity to study it in depth. The first chapter describes past research in this area and the third considers what is known of the history of Britain in the fourth century, while Chapter 2 explains the methods used in the analyses. Chapter 4 presents earlier episodes of stamped pottery to demonstrate that they did not inspire the fourth centuryâs potters. Chapter 5 considers the production centres from which this pottery came and endeavours
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