A series of recent excavations on the 2nd Century
AD Antonine frontier forts of the Midland Scottish
valley, have produced results which suggest that the
army was making its own pottery on an appreciable
scale. This was at a time when pottery production was
thought to have moved almost exclusively into civilian
hands.
The possible local ware groups identified by the
excavations were largely independent of firm source
indicators such as kiln and waster material and the
number of available samples was often-small.
A program of Neutron Activation and Thin Section
petrological analyses was undertaken along with an
investigation into Textural Analysis, a facet of the
Petrological toolkit. The aim was both to define the
site ware groups and a group of specialist vessels
thought to be local to Scotland, the Mortaria, and to
make statements as to their provenance.
Although the Mortaria analysis was limited by
problems of sample group size and availability, by
improving the objectivity of the statistical handling
of the derived data sets and developing methods for the
high level study of textural data, the site ware groups
were defined successfully at both the "intrall and
"inter" site levels. The analyses also furnished
interpretations as to the mode and nature of the site
production schemes.
Through the full analysis of' site Daub samples
linked to more traditional provenancing techniques, in
all but one case the ware groups could be assigned to
the source sites, where contrasting production modes
could be identified with military as opposed to
civilian production. / SERC
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/3374 |
| Date | January 1991 |
| Creators | Gillings, Mark |
| Contributors | Aspinall, A., Jones, Rick F.J., Breeze, D.J. |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, Department of Archaeological Sciences |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, PhD |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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