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Class : Fine wares
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Source : Gaul
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Distribution in Britain
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Illustration
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Source of ware
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Roman Pottery in Britain (Tyers 1996)
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This ware is discussed on p.137-138 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : CGBL
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National Roman Fabric Reference Collection (Tomber & Dore 1998)
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Cross-reference from this group to fabric descriptions published in
The National Roman Fabric Reference Collection (1998):
- CNG BS
- Central Gaulish Black-slipped ware p.50
Illustrations of these fabrics are available only in the printed catalogue: R. Tomber & J. Dore,
The national Roman fabric reference collection. A handbook
Museum of London Archaeology Service, London. MOLAS monograph 2. (1998). |
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A fine black-slipped ware, commonly beakers and cups with rouletted or
barbotine decoration, produced in Central Gaul and widely distributed
across Gaul and Britain during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. |
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Fabric and technology
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Fine-textured fabric; generally pink (2.5YR 6/6) or light red
(2.5YR 4/6) with glossy black or dark reddish-brown (10YR 3/1)
slip; characteristic micaceous matrix, with fine quartz, limestone
and sparse red iron ore inclusions. Decoration includes fine horizontal
rouletted lines, barbotine 'ivy scrolls' and animals, and occasional
appliqué motifs. Wheel-thrown.
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Forms
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Beakers and cups. Some overlap with sigillata forms and techniques.
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Description
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Gillam
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1
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Two-handled cup
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2
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Hemispherical cup (Drag. 40)
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210
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3
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Shouldered beaker with plain base
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4-5
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Plain beaker with pedestal base
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48
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6
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Plain beaker with plain base
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7
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Folded beaker
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Table 1. Principal Central Gaulish black-slipped
forms
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Chronology
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Develops from earlier Central Gaulish colour-coated ware traditions
by c. AD 150, until early 3rd cent.
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Source
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The Central Gaulish sigillata workshops, including Lezoux.
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Distribution
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In Gaul, generally distributed east of the Saône (little overlap
with Moselkeramik) and noted in Paris basin and along the Loire.
In Britain, seems to be present throughout, but inadequate identifications
make detailed mapping difficult.
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Aliases
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Conflated with Moselkeramik in JRPS bibliography as rhn.
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Aliases
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Caister-on-sea fabric CGBL-30. Carlisle fabric 323.
Chelmsford fabric 8. Colchester fabric CLNE. Gestingthorpe
fabric C2. Gloucester fabrics TF12I and TF12J. Lullingstone
fabric 6. Milton Keynes fabric 23c. Old Penrith
fabric 14. Kent fine fabric 3e. Towcester fabric
14a.
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Bibliography
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For description of fabric and differentiation from Moselkeramik:
Brewster 1972; Greene 1978a; Greene 1978b; Richardson 1986, 115-18.
Lezoux examples illustrated and described in Bet et al. 1987.
Symonds 1992, groups 6-15. There is some overlap between CGBL,
the earlier colour-coated fabrics of Central Gaul (CGCC) and Central
Gaulish 'black samian'.
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References
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Bet et al. 1987.
Bet, P., Gangloff, R. and Vertet, H., Les productions céramiques
antiques de Lezoux et de la Gaule centrale à travers les collections
du Musée archéologique de Lezoux (63), Revue archéologique
SITES. Hors-série, 32, (1987).
Brewster 1972.
Brewster, N. H., 'Corbridge: It's significance for the study of
Rhenish ware', ArchAeliana4, 50, (1972), pp. 205-16.
Greene 1978a.
Greene, K. T., 'Roman trade between Britain and the Rhine provinces:
the evidence of pottery to c. AD 250' in Roman shipping and
trade: Britain and the Rhine provinces, ed. J. du Plat Taylor
and H. Cleere, Research reports/Council for British Archaeology,
24, Council for British Archaeology, London, (1978), pp.
52-8.
Greene 1978b.
Greene, K. T., 'Imported fine wares in Britain to AD 250: A guide
to identification' in Early fine wares in Roman Britain,
ed. G. D. Marsh and P. R. Arthur, British archaeological reports.
British series, 57, BAR, Oxford, (1978), pp. 15-30.
Richardson 1986.
Richardson, B., 'The Pottery' in The Roman quay at St. Magnus
House London: excavations at New Fresh Wharf, Lower Thames Street,
London, 1974-16, ed. Miller, LAMAS Special Paper, 8,
LAMAS, London, (1986), pp. No 1.164-68.
Symonds 1992.
Symonds, R. P., Rhenish wares. Fine dark coloured pottery from
Gaul and Germany, Oxford University Committee for Archaeology.
Monograph, 23, Oxford, (1992).
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