Edward Biddulph
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Biddulph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Biddulph |
| SIGNATURE | BIDDULPH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Archaeology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6916-5175 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Meals for the dead
Accessory vessels, including platters, dishes, beakers, flagons, jars, and amphorae, are a common feature of Romano-British burials, raising questions as to their provenance; for example, were such vessels recycled from the domestic sphere or made specially for funerary purposes? Furthermore, uncertainty surrounds their purpose: did they contain foods for the deceased, possibly for their final journey to the underworld? Interestingly, organic res…
Live and Let Evolve
The titles of the James Bond books and films are well-established in the cultural milieu. In some cases, they have become as much a part of popular idiom as the phrases from which they themselves have derived (e.g. Live and Let Die). Such is their appeal and familiarity that the titles are commonly employed in contexts away from the world of James Bond. This article examines the use of the Bond titles in four spheres: company names, newspaper hea…
Finding Oxford's medieval Jewry using organic residue analysis, faunal records and historical documents
Food is often one of the most distinctive expressions of social, religious, cultural or ethnic groups. However, the archaeological identification of specific religious dietary practices, including the Jewish tradition of keepingkosher, associated with ritual food practices and taboos, is very rare. This is arguably one of the oldest known diets across the world and, for an observant Jew, maintaining dietary laws (known as Kashruth) is a fundament…
From Table to Grave
It is popularly thought that pottery vessels deposited in graves represented meals for the deceased, but this has been little tested statistically using 'big data'. By way of redress, this article brings together pottery data from a number of large cemeteries in south-east Roman Britain, as well as from selected sites on the European Continent, and compares them with pottery data from settlement assemblages associated by location, status and date…
Residual or Ritual? Pottery from the Backfills of Graves and Other Features in Roman Cemeteries
Roman cremation burials
The Late Iron Age and Roman Pottery
Pottery production at Heybridge
On Cultural Selection
Bond Was Not a Gourmet”
In the course of his novels, lan Fleming describes in some detail seventy meals that James Bond consumes or considers eating. This article examines Bond's diet. Treating the food as artifacts and using the analytical methods of archaeology, it attempts to provide better understanding of its composition, and place it in social context. Three conclusions are drawn from the study. Bond's diet is nutritionally unbalanced when compared with recommende…
Form and Function
Wear‐patterns inside Roman samian ware vessels provide a clue as to how the pots were used. The wear repeatedly seen in the cups, Dragendorff 27 and Dragendorff 33, is particularly distinctive. This paper reports the results of using reproduction cups to replicate the patterns in order to discover how these may have been formed. The results suggest that Dragendorff 27 was used in the kitchen as a mortar, while Dragendorff 33 was a wine‐drinking v…
Last Orders
This paper examines ceramic vessels from Roman‐period funerary contexts in Essex. Using correspondence analysis, it charts changes in the choice of funerary pottery and isolates the elements in pottery assemblages that unite or differentiate sites. The paper finds that the status of sites can be distinguished on ceramic grounds, reflecting cultural differences in life. Jars and beakers are characteristic of settlement cemeteries, while cups are m…
Finding Oxford's medieval Jewry using organic residue analysis, faunal records and historical documents
Food is often one of the most distinctive expressions of social, religious, cultural or ethnic groups. However, the archaeological identification of specific religious dietary practices, including the Jewish tradition of keepingkosher, associated with ritual food practices and taboos, is very rare. This is arguably one of the oldest known diets across the world and, for an observant Jew, maintaining dietary laws (known as Kashruth) is a fundament…
Form and Function
Wear‐patterns inside Roman samian ware vessels provide a clue as to how the pots were used. The wear repeatedly seen in the cups, Dragendorff 27 and Dragendorff 33, is particularly distinctive. This paper reports the results of using reproduction cups to replicate the patterns in order to discover how these may have been formed. The results suggest that Dragendorff 27 was used in the kitchen as a mortar, while Dragendorff 33 was a wine‐drinking v…
From Table to Grave
It is popularly thought that pottery vessels deposited in graves represented meals for the deceased, but this has been little tested statistically using 'big data'. By way of redress, this article brings together pottery data from a number of large cemeteries in south-east Roman Britain, as well as from selected sites on the European Continent, and compares them with pottery data from settlement assemblages associated by location, status and date…
Last Orders
This paper examines ceramic vessels from Roman‐period funerary contexts in Essex. Using correspondence analysis, it charts changes in the choice of funerary pottery and isolates the elements in pottery assemblages that unite or differentiate sites. The paper finds that the status of sites can be distinguished on ceramic grounds, reflecting cultural differences in life. Jars and beakers are characteristic of settlement cemeteries, while cups are m…
Roman cremation burials
The Late Iron Age and Roman Pottery
Last Orders
This paper examines ceramic vessels from Roman‐period funerary contexts in Essex. Using correspondence analysis, it charts changes in the choice of funerary pottery and isolates the elements in pottery assemblages that unite or differentiate sites. The paper finds that the status of sites can be distinguished on ceramic grounds, reflecting cultural differences in life. Jars and beakers are characteristic of settlement cemeteries, while cups are m…
Form and Function
Wear‐patterns inside Roman samian ware vessels provide a clue as to how the pots were used. The wear repeatedly seen in the cups, Dragendorff 27 and Dragendorff 33, is particularly distinctive. This paper reports the results of using reproduction cups to replicate the patterns in order to discover how these may have been formed. The results suggest that Dragendorff 27 was used in the kitchen as a mortar, while Dragendorff 33 was a wine‐drinking v…
Bond Was Not a Gourmet”
In the course of his novels, lan Fleming describes in some detail seventy meals that James Bond consumes or considers eating. This article examines Bond's diet. Treating the food as artifacts and using the analytical methods of archaeology, it attempts to provide better understanding of its composition, and place it in social context. Three conclusions are drawn from the study. Bond's diet is nutritionally unbalanced when compared with recommende…
On Cultural Selection
Residual or Ritual? Pottery from the Backfills of Graves and Other Features in Roman Cemeteries
Roman cremation burials
The Late Iron Age and Roman Pottery
Pottery production at Heybridge
From Table to Grave
It is popularly thought that pottery vessels deposited in graves represented meals for the deceased, but this has been little tested statistically using 'big data'. By way of redress, this article brings together pottery data from a number of large cemeteries in south-east Roman Britain, as well as from selected sites on the European Continent, and compares them with pottery data from settlement assemblages associated by location, status and date…
Live and Let Evolve
The titles of the James Bond books and films are well-established in the cultural milieu. In some cases, they have become as much a part of popular idiom as the phrases from which they themselves have derived (e.g. Live and Let Die). Such is their appeal and familiarity that the titles are commonly employed in contexts away from the world of James Bond. This article examines the use of the Bond titles in four spheres: company names, newspaper hea…
Finding Oxford's medieval Jewry using organic residue analysis, faunal records and historical documents
Food is often one of the most distinctive expressions of social, religious, cultural or ethnic groups. However, the archaeological identification of specific religious dietary practices, including the Jewish tradition of keepingkosher, associated with ritual food practices and taboos, is very rare. This is arguably one of the oldest known diets across the world and, for an observant Jew, maintaining dietary laws (known as Kashruth) is a fundament…
Meals for the dead
Accessory vessels, including platters, dishes, beakers, flagons, jars, and amphorae, are a common feature of Romano-British burials, raising questions as to their provenance; for example, were such vessels recycled from the domestic sphere or made specially for funerary purposes? Furthermore, uncertainty surrounds their purpose: did they contain foods for the deceased, possibly for their final journey to the underworld? Interestingly, organic res…
Archaeology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (7 works) · Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Pottery (5 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works)