The Roman Economy

Week 5 Lecture 1 Pots and PansMortaria, Coarse wares

& Marketing

Marketing Model 1Savernake ware

Jars with everted rims

Reilly’s law of retail Gravitation

LC3 – C4 Finewares

Model 2Churchill 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 1st century Italy – used

by the military. • Dies out in the Mediterranean (apart from LC3 – C4 Syria).• Used in NW Europe – Possibly not as originally intended• Form continues into early middle ages ( Merovingen

variants C12)

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

BB1 Distribution

Horningsea

HorningseaHadrianic - Antonine

HorningseaC3

Horningsea EC4

Holme-on-Spalding-Moor

Pink grog tempered wares LC3-C4

Fabric quantities

Form distribution

Zones of reach