Roman Pottery from York

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Title: Roman Pottery from York
list of authors: J. Monaghan
list of contributors: D. M. Bailey; B. M. Dickinson; K. F. Hartley; R. Pryor; D. F. Williams
Is Part Of: The Archaeology of York [Series]; The Pottery [Volume]
volume: 16
issue: 08
Publisher: Council for British Archaeology for York Archaeological Trust
Date Copyrighted: 1997
Date Available: Digitally available on 18 August 2023
Abstract: This volume draws together evidence for the production and use of Roman ceramics in York from c. AD 71 through to the 5th century. It summarises key ceramic information relating to 260 sites excavated since the 19th century and presents a detailed concordance of sites, enabling city-wide patterns of both ceramic use and structural development to be recognised. The main structure of the work is based around the definition of 'ceramic periods', an independent dating tool which enables a history of Roman York to be written entirely from a ceramic viewpoint. Quantification by sherd count is offered for 160 sites, whilst seventeen larger sites are fully quantified by EVE, weight and sherd count.

The Roman pottery of York was dominated by oxidised Ebor ware from the late 1st to early 3rd century. This is shown to have had military origins and three distinct phases of production. When a civilian town began to blossom in the mid 2nd century, the diversity of pottery sources increased to a peak around the year 200. The distribution of both domestic and funerary pottery is used to demonstrate the expansion of the town and its population. Ceramics show that York thrived during the 3rd century, avoiding the malaise of towns in southern Britain. They also demonstrate that, for the main part, the city stands alone, little affected by the neighbouring region. Contraction of troop strengths, then of the urban population, is found in the 4th century, with islands of 5th century occupation being identified around 'suburban villas' and in the western corner of the fortress.

Thirty-eight plates and drawings of over 600 pots are used to supplement those already published in AY 16/2, 16/4 and 16/7. Published vessels from York are arranged into a typology and fabric series to aid future excavation, and research. Each individual traded ware is discussed, together with its dating span as seen in York and its distribution within the city. Selected topics are investigated in greater deapth, including the relationship between Crambeck and calcite-gritted ware and that between head pots and Romano-Saxon ware. Specialist reports cover amphorae, lamps, mortaria and the unusually rich variety of samian found in York.
Rights Holder: York Archaeological Trust
Rights: CC BY 4.0
Format: Portable Document Format (PDF)
Is Format Of: Paper publication
Identifier: GB2837-PUB-AY-16-8
oclcnum: 38448888
Relation: University of York Library; York Explore Library
isbn10: 1872414834
isbn13: 9781872414836
Type: Text
Language: English
page start: 825
page end: 1166
number of pages: 342
References: A0001 31-7 Gillygate (GA); A0002 Museum Street/Lendal; A0003 Railway Station (RS); A0004 St Maurice's/Newbiggin (SM/NB); A0005 6-28/21-7 Union Terrace (UT); A0006 Skeldergate, Pawson's Warehouse (SK); A0007 Church Street, site of Talbot Hotel; A0008 Lloyds Bank, 6-8 Pavement (LB); A0009 4-5 Church Street (CS) (Roman Sewer); A0010 Leadmill Lane; A0014 Friends' Burial Ground, Bishophill; A0015 St Peter's School, Avenue Terrace; A0016 Walmgate/Willow Street; A0019 Peasholme Green; A0020 Paragon Street, Barbican Baths (Cattle Market); A0021 The Bedern, South-west; A0022 58-59 Skeldergate (Bishophill I); A0023 37 Bishophill Senior (Bishophill II); A0029 Cromwell Road; A0030 Skeldergate; A0041 Fulford Field II (Outer Ring Road); A0043 17-21 Davygate (W P Brown); A0012 Museum Street/Lendal (Interval Tower SW5); A0013 21-33 Aldwark (St Helen's) (Ebor Brewery); A0046 Lloyds Bank, 10-12 Lendal (Lloyds Lendal); A0047 5-7 Coppergate (Hardings/Habitat); A0049 St Thomas's Hospital, Micklegate; A0050 34 Shambles; A0052 39-41 Coney Street (W.H. Smith); A0056 Stonegate; A0057 St Mary Castlegate; A0062 9 Blake Street (City Garage); A0064 Gillygate; A0065 Bootham; A0067 Grimston Interchange; A0083 Clementhorpe (Roman house/Nunnery); A0084 16-22 Coppergate; A0085 Parliament Street Sewer; A0086 The Bedern, north-east; A0087 Aldwark, adjacent to 1-5; A0088 All Saints, Pavement; A0091 Treasurer's House; A0106 8 High Ousegate (Peter Lane); A0119 Peasholme Green borehole; A0132 27-31 St Andrewgate; A0169 Bedern Chapel; A0201 5, 6, 7 Parliament Street; A0204 1-2 Tower Street (Castle Garage); A0205 Jewbury; A0206 5 Rougier Street; A0207 Trinity Lane Car Park; A0209 City Walls, Tower 11; A0248 County Hospital/Fossbank; A0251 County Hospital, Monkgate; A0208 Coppergate/Piccadilly/Castlegate, watching brief; A0271 36 Aldwark (Police Garage); A0272 Skeldergate, City Mills; A0279 General Accident, 24-30 Tanner Row; A0284 51 Heworth Green; A0285 25 St Saviourgate; A0287 Judge's Lodging, Lendal; A0290 Garden Street/St John Street car park; A0319 Museum Gardens (medieval sewer); A0324 28 Castlegate; A0326 15 Bishophill Senior; A0327 City Walls, Tower 8; A0353 Museum Gardens (sewer trench); A0355 17/18 High Ousegate & 19 Coppergate; A0318 5/7/9 Aldwark; A0356 Museum Gardens (IBM); A0322 46-54 Fishergate (Redfearn National Glass); A0359 Museum Gardens (Flood Defences); A0363 City Walls, Tower 13 (Toft's Tower); A0365 1- 9 Bridge Street; A0368 City Walls, Walmgate Bar; A0442 Terry Avenue; A0445 Assembly Rooms, Blake Street; A0450 Haymarket Car Park, Peasholme Green; A0453 City Walls, Tower 28 (Lord Mayor's Walk); A0455 Museum Gardens, Tempest Anderson Hall; A0370 Purey Cust Nuffield Hospital; A0491 Monkgate/St Maurice's Road; A0501 16 Parliament Street; A0503 Mount School, Driffield Terrace; A0509 22 Piccadilly (ABC Cinema); A0511 Museum Gardens Access Road; A0512 Wellington Row; A0515 Barbican Leisure Centre; A0517 21-23 Bootham; A0519 76/82 Walmgate; A0539 Trafalgar Bay PH, Nunnery Lane; A0546 St Helen's Square; A0552 1-9 Micklegate [Queens Hotel]; A0606 Albion Wharf, 23-28 Skeldergate; A0608 Rolyat Works, Cromwell Road; A0612 Crown Court, York Castle; A0613 Foss Islands Road / Lawrence Street; A0544 Cherry Hill Lane/Clementhorpe; A0620 Escrick Street; A0623 Museum Gardens tree planting (Shd Mon); A0624 35-41 Blossom Street; A0625 Dundas Street, NEEB HQ; A0628 Stonebow to Davygate Telecom trench (Non O N); A0629 12-18 Swinegate; A0629 12-18 Swinegate; A0665 Site adjacent to Layerthorpe Postern, Peasholme Green; A0666 5-13 Clifford Street; A0671 23 Clifford Street; A0675 St Wilfrid's RC School, Monkgate; A0676 Adams Hydraulics, Peasholme Green; A0679 Bishophill Senior Car Park; A0680 St Georges Field Car Park; A0685 20-24 Swinegate; A0686 41-49 Walmgate & George Street; A0725 89 The Mount; A0726 Ideal Laundry, Trinity Lane; A0732 14-20 Blossom Street; A0734 14 Skeldergate; A0735 Barbican cycle path, Kent Street; A0742 47 Blossom Street; A0784 45-57 Gillygate; A0785 City Walls, Tower 9; A0786 50 Piccadilly; A0787 26-28 Marygate; A0788 2 St Maurice's Road; A0794 41 Piccadilly; A0776 Rawcliffe Manor site, Manor Lane, York; A0833 Flood Alleviation Pumping Station, North Street, York; A0846 All Saints School, Nunnery Lane; New Station (1873); Heworth Green (1878); Burton Stone Lane (pre-1900); Fishergate (pre-1900); The Mount (The Rowans) (1900); Walmgate/Fossgate (pre-1914); 35-41 Blossom Street (Lion and Lamb) (1920); Coney Street (Penny Bank) (1922); Fortress defences (Miller), close to E corner tower (1925); Fortress defences (Miller), Hawarden Place (1925); Fortress defences (Miller), E corner tower (1925); Fortress defences (Miller), Interval Tower NE6 (1926); Fortress defences (Miller), Dean's Park (1926); Fortress defences (Miller), Multangular Tower (1926); Heworth (1926); Exhibition Buildings, Exhibition Square (1930); Church Street Roman baths (1933); Old Nunthorpe (1934); Air Raid Control Shelter, Old Station (1939); Fishergate (1939); Huntington Road (Hall's Leather) (1947); The Rise (St Peter's School) (1947); The Avenue, Clifton (1947); Railway Station (1948); 78 Micklegate (1948); Hungate/Garden Place (1950); Trentholme Drive (1951); St Mary's Abbey, Museum Gardens (1952); 18-20 Blossom Street (Forsselius Garage) (1953); Toft Green (1954); South corner tower, Feasegate (1956); 8 Coney Street, formerly 50-1 (Dorothy Perkins) (1956); 6-14 Davygate (Prudential) (1956); 65 Low Petergate (Fox Inn), now 66 Low Petergate (1957); Interval Tower SW6 (1957); Davy Hall (1958); Stonegate (1958); Spurriergate (1959); Apple Tree Farm, Bad Bargain Lane (1959); Holgate Road (Railway Offices) (1959); Lendal ditch (1960); Priory Street (1961); St Mary Bishophill Junior (1961); Bishophill Junior (1961); St Mary Bishophill Senior (1962); The Mount (Lister and Edmonds) (1963); St William's College, Ogleforth (1964); 52 Bootham (1964); 2 St Helen's Square (Barclay's Bank) (1965); Blossom Street (Bar Convent) (1965); Monkgate (School Clinic) (1968); Ogleforth (1968); Baile Hill (1969); Anglian Tower (1969); Nunnery Lane (1969); Nunnery Lane (tile burial) (1970); NW defences (Radley) (1970); NW defences (Davison) (1970); Borthwick Institute, Peasholme Green (1970); 27 Tanner Row (1971); Interval Tower NE6 (1971); 4-5 Church Street (Minster Excavation Group) (1972); York Minster (Minster Excavation Group) (1973); South corner tower, Feasegate (1973); Apple Tree Farm (1974); Apple Tree Farm Kilns (1988); Hob Moor railway sidings (1988)

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