This is a short list of selected links on Pottery and Archaeology and related topics

More specific links on individual classes or wares will be found on the other pages on this site, but you can display all these links here.

This does not claim to be an exhaustive list of web links to ceramic topics. It is also proving very difficult to keep these lists in any sort of reasonable state as links move around and disappear with alarming frequency.

Pottery in Archaeology:

• Ceramics
  Links to pages on the archaeological study of pottery vessels and production techniques of the past.
• Ashmolean Museum: PotWeb: ABC of Pottery in Archaeology
  Introduction to archaeological uses of pottery (mostly medieval but more generally applicable).
• Le Portail de l'Archéologie
  Archaeology and pottery links

Study groups and organisations:

• Study Group for Roman Pottery (SGRP) Index
  The Study Group for Roman Pottery, (SGRP), was formed in 1971 to further the study of pottery of the Roman period in Britain.
• Société Française d'Étude de la Céramique Antique en Gaule
  The French Roman pottery study group organises an annual conference and publishes the congress proceedings.
• REI CRETARIAE ROMANAE FAVTORES
  The RCRF is an international learned society specialising in the field of Roman pottery. Its main aim is to establish contact between scholars of different countries and the field of interest is interpreted in its widest sense. The RCRF publi

Pottery in Archaeology: techniques

• Ceramic petrology
  Pages by Alan Vince describing the techniques, potential and results of ceramic petrology.
• Messing Pottery - On Line
  Roman kiln firings for children

Roman pottery: general references

• Roman ceramic pages
  Extensive pages on Roman ceramics by Allard Mees, with extensive bibliographies of recent publications and links. Incorporates an index of Banassac figure types.
• UCL/CRAN - IFRC - Home Page
  Home page of the International Fabric Reference Collection for Roman pottery, housed at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Includes listings of pottery types from Northern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean in the collection.
• Philip Corder: The structure of Romano-British pottery kilns (1965)
  CBA Research Report No 5 (1965). The full text and illustrations of this paper are available as a series of PDF files. It includes historical plans and illsutrations of a number of Romano-British kilns.
• Graham Webster (editor) : Romano-British coarse pottery: a student's guide (1976)
  CBA Research Report No 6 (1976). The full text and illustrations of this paper are available as a series of PDF files. It includes a glossary of technical terms, short descriptions of some of the principal types, a list of stratified groups (by region)
• Alec Detsicas (editor) : Current research in Romano-British coarse pottery (1973)
  CBA Research Report No 10 (1973). The full text and illustrations of this paper are available as a series of PDF files. This is one of the most important sets of paper on Romano-British pottery published during the 1970s.
• Study Group for Roman Pottery (SGRP) JRPS List of Volumes
  The text of out-of-print volumes of the JRPS is being made available on the JRPS web site.
• Romam Pottery lost en route from the Kiln Site to the User - A Gazetteer
  Michael Rhodes Journal of Roman Pottery Studies 2 (1989) [Text of paper]
• Marketing of Roman pottery in second-century Northamptonshire and the Milton Keynes area
  Karen E. Griffiths JRPS 2 (1989) [Text of paper]
• Römische Keramik
  One page summary of Roman pottery [in English] by J.W.Hayes. Source : Grove Dictionary of Art.
• A Roman pottery kiln
  Report of experimental firing of a Roman pottery kiln at Nijmegen (NL).
• Archaeology in Kent to AD 1500 : CBA Research Report 48
  Volume contains paper by R. Pollard on Roman pottery production and marketing in Kent

Roman pottery: data sets

• The Registry of Mediterranean Pottery
  A sample dataset of Roman pottery distributions, principally of late Roman date from the western Mediterranean.

Roman pottery: site reports

• Pottery from the Easton Maudit Villa
  Easton Maudit (Northants/GB) : Summary of the pottery from the Easton Maudit villa, which including a series of paint pots, a black sigillata vessel by Libertus and photographs of sigillata and mortarium stamps
• Concangis: The Report (Roman Pottery)
  Chester-le-Street (Durham/GB) : pottery report by J.N.Dore
• Peñaflor Chapter 2 - The Ceramic Typology
  Peñaflor (Sevilla/Spain) - pottery report by by Simon Keay and Ana Romo Salas with contributions from Kathryn Knowles and Miguel Ribagorda.
• Internet Archaeol. 9 Millett et al. Ave Valley Survey
  Ave Valley Survey (Portugal) - pottery report by Steven Willis. Internet Archaeology [requires registration].
• Internet Archaeol 9. Hunter-Mann. Pot introduction 1
  Brough-on-Humber (Humberside/GB) - THE ROMAN POTTERY by M.J. Darling, with K.H. Hartley and B. Dickinson. Internet Archaeology [requires registration].
• Trent Vale
  Pottery from the Trent Vale kiln