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Romano-British Pottery Kilns near Northampton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

D. E. Johnston
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Summary

Intensive recent field-work in the Upper Nene valley has located many new kiln sites. Twenty, in an area about eight miles by six, are surveyed in this paper, and their products studied and illustrated; distribution of the products is shown, provisionally, to be purely local. A group of kilns excavated in 1962 at Ecton is reported on in full. Four updraught kilns of varying forms fired the work of at least two potters in the second and third centuries A.D. ; this included flagons and mortaria. The industry locally dates from the mid first century A.D. and flourished into the second; a recession in the third century was apparently followed by complete breakdown in the fourth. This perhaps reflects competition from potteries of the Lower Nene around Castor, as occupation of domestic sites continued unabated.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , March 1969 , pp. 75 - 97
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1969

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