The latest issue of long running, highly regarded Journal, this issue focuses on new methodological approaches and initiatives alongside reports on new discoveries at major pottery production centres.
The new volume of the long-running Journal of Roman Pottery Studies will include conference proceedings of the 2019 conference held at Atherstone, Warwickshire, and the 50th anniversary conference of the Study Group for Roman Pottery held online with Newcastle University. Papers reflect on recent advances in methodological approaches and their applications, the past and future role of the society and new initiatives in archiving policies and their implications. It will also contain a number of papers outside these conferences that focus on pottery production, notably of colour-coated wares in Lincoln and in the province of Noricum, as well as a report on the glass working furnace discovered alongside the pottery production kilns at Mancetter-Hartshill. Book reviews and obituaries are also included.
Editorial Board
Contributors to this Journal
Editorial
Obituaries
Margaret Jane Darling, MPhil FSA MIfA (1939–2021) by Ian M. Rowlandson
Roberta Sylvia Tomber (1954–2022) by Jane Timby
Paul Bidwell, OBE LLB MA FSA MIfA (19 June 1949–5 November 2022) by Alexandra Croom and William Griffiths
1. Glass-working at Mancetter-Hartshill
Caroline M. Jackson
2. Fifty years (or perhaps 49) of the Study Group for Roman Pottery
Christopher Young
3. Article 3: Reflections on the past and considerations for the future on the objectives of the SGRP
Fiona Seeley
4. Why study Roman pottery? Surely the men have done it already!
Kayt Hawkins
5. National initiatives in archaeological archiving
Duncan H. Brown
6. Pure and sample: An assessment of the impacts of sampling on the interpretation of a Roman pottery assemblage from the A14C2H excavations
Lanah Hewson
7. Means to an end: The use of average sherd weights and rim percentages to better understand ceramic fragmentation and deposition patterns
Edward Biddulph
8. Communities of practice in 2nd–5th century AD pottery production: A case study from south-western Noricum, Austria
Barbara Borgers and Martin Auer
9. A late Roman ‘Nene Valley colour-coated ware’ kiln site beside the River Witham at Lincoln in 2009
Hugh G. Fiske and Ian M. Rowlandson
10. Reviews
Life in Roman and Medieval Leicester: Excavations in the town’s north-east quarter, 1958–2006 (2021) by Richard Buckley, Nicholas J. Cooper and Mathew Morris
Reviewed by Steven Willis
Late Roman Dorset Black-Burnished Ware (BB1): a corpus of forms and their distribution in southern Britain, on the Continent and in the Channel Islands (2022) by Malcolm Lyne
Reviewed by James Gerrard and Eniko Hudak
Résumés (Abstracts in French) translated by Sophie Chavarria
Zusammenfassungen (Abstracts in German) translated by Franziska Dövener