The Roman Economy Week 5 Lecture 1 Pots

The Roman Economy Week 5 Lecture 1 Pots and Pans Mortaria, Coarse wares & Marketing

Marketing Model 1 Savernake ware

Jars with everted rims

Reilly’s law of retail Gravitation

LC 3 – C 4 Finewares

Model 2 Churchill Orange WMJ

Alice Holt

Other Models • Small scale rural production – supplying a number of markets with large amounts of overlapping • Military Marketing ( Mortaria, SVW, BB)

Mortaria • A large heavy bowl often with internal grits ( rock, flint, slag). • Flanged or wall sided • Used for food preparation in the kitchen, and sometimes at the table • Hellenistic Antecedents. Popular in 1 st century Italy – used by the military. • Dies out in the Mediterranean (apart from LC 3 – C 4 Syria). • Used in NW Europe – Possibly not as originally intended • Form continues into early middle ages ( Merovingen variants C 12)

Nantwich Mortaria

Sea Transport of Colchester Mortaria

Land Transport of Mortaria

Stamps from Italian Brickyards

Gaulish Supply

Gallo Belgica Supply

Mortaria Kilns

Mancetter-Hartshill and Oxford 1973

Mancetter- Hartshill V Oxford Mortaria 2010

N Syrian Basins and Mortaria

N Syrian Mortaria

Black Burnished Ware

BB 1 Distribution

Horningsea

Horningsea Hadrianic - Antonine

Horningsea C 3

Horningsea EC 4

Holme-on-Spalding-Moor

Pink grog tempered wares LC 3 -C 4

Fabric quantities

Form distribution

Zones of reach