The Excavation of a Fourth-Century Roman Pottery Production Unit at Stibbington, Cambridgeshire

Excavations took place in 1969, in advance of housing development, on the site of a fourth-century Roman pottery workshop, two adjacent kilns, a well, a large pit and two burials. The workshop contained internal features linked with pottery production, including possible emplacements for potters' wheels. Two kilns, each constructed differently, were producing grey and colour-coated wares. A large pit was used for rubbish. A well, square in plan, was associated with the workshop and must have provided water for the potters. Of particular interest was a complete millstone, which appears to have been used as a flywheel fixed to a potter's wheel. Pottery production at the site may have continued into the early part of the fifth century and as such is one of the last known production centres of the Roman Nene valley pottery industry. The site is significant in that it probably represents a near complete and typical industrial pottery production unit within a major pottery production area of the province and represents an important aspect of the late Roman economy

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Excavation · Geography · Kiln · Pottery · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · History

• IV. Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.—V. On the reconstruction of the stature of prehistoric races

  Open Access•Karl Pearson•Philosophical Transactions of the…•1899

  Incluir item

• A chemical study of clays and Roman pottery from the Lower Nene Valley, Eastern England

  Open Access•J Storey, Jeremy M V Storey•Journal of Archaeological Science•1988

  Incluir item

• The Structure of Romano-British Pottery Kilns

  Philip Corder•Archaeological Journal•1957

  Incluir item

• Roman Settlement in the Lower Nene Valley

  John Peter Wild•Archaeological Journal•1974

  Incluir item

• The Roman Pottery

  Open Access•Fiona Cameron•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1987

  Incluir item

• Verulamium Excavations

  Frere Sheppard•1972

  Incluir item