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Class : Mortaria
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Source : Britain
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Distribution in Britain
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Illustration
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Roman Pottery in Britain (Tyers 1996)
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This ware is discussed on p.134-135 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : WPMO
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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):
- WIL RS
- Wilderspool Red-slipped ware p.122
- WIL WS
- Wilderspool White-slipped ware p.123
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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The Pottery kilns of Roman Britain (Swan 1984)
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| This fabric was produced at kiln sites at these locations:
Display more details of these sites. Data summarized from V. G. Swan The pottery kilns of Roman Britain (HMSO, London, 1984, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Supplementary Series 5). |
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Mortaria manufactured
at Warrington (Ches/GB) with distribution in north-west England,
north Wales and southern Scotland during 2nd century AD. |
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Fabric and technology
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Fairly sandy fabrics with abundant quartz inclusions, varying
from pink through to orange-brown, often with a blue-grey core;
multicoloured (red, brown, white and black) trituration grit.
Wheel-thrown.
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Forms
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Mortaria with bead and rolled flange.
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Stamps
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The Wilderspool potters Austinus, Docci.. and DIS/LDB moved subsequently
to the Carlisle (Eden Valley) region, where they produced very
similar mortaria. It is not always possible to distinguish Wilderspool
and Carlisle products on fabric grounds alone, but different dies
were used in the two workshops.
The potter Nanieco probably originated in the Mancetter-Hartshill
potteries. The Scottish potter Emi.., who probably operated from
the Newstead area, produced mortaria with the same rim forms as
DIS/LDB and Doccius, and probably trained in their Wilderspool
or Carlisle workshops.
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Potter
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Date
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AMENUS
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AUSTINUS
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115-165
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-> Carlisle
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BRICO
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C.C.M
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DECANIO
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130-165
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DECMITIUS
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DIS/LDB
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120-150
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-> Carlisle
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DOCCI..
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120-155
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-> Carlisle
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MIMICIUS
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-
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NANIECO
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-
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<- MHMO ?
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OVID[I]US
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-
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REBDECUS(?)
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125-160
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Table 1. Principal Wilderspool mortarium
potters
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Chronology
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Hadrianic and Antonine.
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Source
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Wilderspool, Warrington (Cheshire).
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Distribution
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North-west England, the northern frontier zone, including the
Antonine Wall; a few in north Wales.
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Aliases
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JRPS bibliography fabric wpm.
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Bibliography
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For the Wilderspool kilns: RCHM gazetteer F240; Hartley
and Webster 1973. The principal potters, and their Eden Valley
connections, are discussed in McCarthy 1990, 260-262; Hinchcliffe
et al. 1992, 73.
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References
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Hartley and Webster 1973.
Hartley, K. F. and Webster, P. V., 'Romano-British pottery kilns
near Wilderspool', ArchJ, 130, (1973), pp. 77-103.
Hinchcliffe et al. 1992.
Hinchcliffe, J., Williams, J. H. and Williams, F., Roman Warrington.
Excavations at Wilderspool 1966-9 and 1976, Brigantia Monograph,
2, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Manchester, Manchester,
(1992).
McCarthy 1990.
McCarthy, M. R., A Roman, Anglian and Medieval site at Blackfriars
Street, Carlisle: Excavations 1977-79, Research series, 4,
Cumberland And Westmorland Archaeological and Antiquarian Society,
Kendal, (1990).
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