Aspects of ceramic use during the Late Iron Age and Romano-British periods: a study of pottery, place and people

Lyons, Alice (2022) Aspects of ceramic use during the Late Iron Age and Romano-British periods: a study of pottery, place and people. Doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia.

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Abstract

“Pottery helped structure the ways people socialized at mealtimes and grieved during funerals; and it was often present when gods-fearing families performed small ritual acts”
Roth (2003, 41)

This short thesis concerns Roman pottery in eastern Britain and how the analysis of this material type, which was deeply embedded and entangled in everyday life (Roth 2003), informs on the society which made it.

The main subjects included in this text are the introduction of new potting technology in the Late Iron Age and its adoption in the Early Roman era, a characterisation of pottery fabrics in use; a discussion of ceramic specialisation and the connectiveness of mortaria workshops, a review of the manufacture of Black Burnished ‘kindred wares’, and finally an examination of the use of pottery in the Roman funerary rite.

Keywords
Late Iron Age, Early Roman, Roman, northern East Anglia, Eastern Britain, technology, pottery, manufacture, specialisation, connectiveness, distribution and deposition

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
Depositing User:	Nicola Veasy
Date Deposited:	14 Dec 2022 09:48
Last Modified:	21 Dec 2022 12:54
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/90003
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