List of Romano-British pottery explained

Romano-British Pottery was produced from the 1st through the 5th centuries AD in Britain, during the period of occupation by the Roman Empire.^[1] Before the invasion of the Romans, pottery in Britain was handmade and fired in a bonfire. The Romans introduced the new technology of fast potters wheels and kilns for firing. The newer manufacturing methods resulted in a pottery that was different from the previous period's pottery. Wheel thrown pottery ceased to be produced after the End of Roman rule in Britain.^[2] Romano-British pottery has a thinner, harder and smoother fabric than both Iron Age (800 BC–100 AD) and Anglo-Saxon pottery (500–1066 AD).

List of Romano-British pottery

This is a partial list of Romano-British pottery.

Pottery Name	Time period	Characteristics	Origin	Image
Black-burnished ware	2nd to 4th centuries CE	Two classes of wares: I and II	Dorset area and Thames Estuary[3]
Crambeck Ware	4th century AD	One of two main Romano-British pottery industries in Yorkshire	Crambeck, Yorkshire[4]
Dales ware	3rd to 4th centuries AD	Used often as burial urns	South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire[5]
Hadham Red ware	2nd to 4th centuries AD	Used often as burial urns	Cambridgeshire[6] [7]
Huntcliff ware	4th to early 5th centuries AD	Used often as burial urns	East Yorkshire[8]
Nene Valley Colour Coated Ware	2nd to 4th centuries AD	Barbotine-type decoration	Lower Nene Valley[9]
Oxfordshire colour coated ware	3rd to 4th centuries AD	Produced in Oxfordshire, distributed across Britain	East Anglia[10]
Vectis ware	2nd to 5th centuries AD	Production began prior to Roman occupation	Isle of Wight[11]

See also

• Ancient Roman Pottery
• Roman Britain
• List of English medieval pottery

Notes and References

1. Book: The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization . 1998 . Simon Hornblower . Antony Spawforth . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-860165-4 .
2. Book: Ward-Perkins, Bryan . The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilisation . Oxford University Press, USA . Oxford New York . 2006-07-13 . 0-19-280728-5 . 104.
3. Book: Timby, Jane. Cunliffe . Barry . Barry Cunliffe . 2013 . The Roman Villa at Brading, Isle of Wight: The Excavations of 2008-10 . Material Culture: pottery and fired clay . Oxford School or Archaeology . 192 . 9781905905263.
4. Monaghan, G. 1997.Roman Pottery from York (Archaeology of York Series 16/8). York: York Archaeological Trust. pp903-906
5. Book: Margaret Darling. Barbara Precious. A Corpus of Roman Pottery from Lincoln. 31 January 2014. Oxbow Books. 978-1-78297-054-5. 83–.
6. Web site: Roman Pottery Identification . Jigsaw Cambridgeshire Best Practice User's Guide . 20 October 2021.
7. Web site: Hadham Red Ware . Fen Edge Archaeology Group . 20 October 2021.
8. Web site: Huntcliff ware on the National Roman Fabric Reference Collection . Museum of London . 18 October 2021 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131222181539/http://www.molas.org.uk/projects/fabrics_tei.asp?report=nrfc . 22 December 2013 . dmy-all .
9. Web site: Nene valley Colour Coated Ware . PotSherd . 1996 . 2014-04-22.
10. Web site: Oxfordshire Red-Brown Slipped wares . Potsherd: Atlas of Roman Pottery . 20 October 2021.
11. Book: Tomalin, David J . 1987 . Roman Wight A Guide Catalogue to "The Island of Vectis, very near to Britannia" . Isle of Wight County Council . 30–31 . 0906328373.