Reference

• Paul A. Tyers
• Aspects of the development of the late La Tène and early Roman pottery industries of Gaul and Britain
• Cardiff: University College, Cardiff
• 1981
• 2 volumes

Supervisor: Prof. W. H. Manning.

Access

The original bound copies are held at:

1. The library of Cardiff University https://librarysearch.cardiff.ac.uk/permalink/44WHELF_CAR/1fseqj3/alma993672953402420
2. The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth https://discover.library.wales/permalink/f/1norb00/44NLW_ALMA21836168510002419

These sites include tools that allow the reference to be saved in bibliography management software (Endnote, BibTex etc).

The thesis was scanned by the EThOS service of the British Library in 2016 and is available for download (as a PDF) from https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.344861 (registration required). This URL should probably be considered as the permanent link to the work.

The EThOS scan notes that the print is close to the edge of the pages and that some is cut off. As an alternative, the links below are to scans taken from the original unbound typescript (as opposed to the bound photocopies) and may avoid some of these problems.

• Volume 1: text PDF, 452 pages, 28 MB
• Volume 2: figures, bibliography PDF, 351 pages, 20 MB

It is intended, eventually, to rearrange the text and images of the thesis as a set of web pages on this site.

In retrospect …

Looking back at the thesis over the intervening decades one of the most striking aspects is the complete change in technologies reflected here. This was an entirely pre-digital creation. The hand-writen text was typed on an electric typewriter by a local typist picked from the list recommended by the College – double spaced as per the University of Wales thesis regulations. Accents, of which there were quite a few given the geographical scope of the subject, had to be added to the finished typescript by hand. Typewriters with accented characters were evidently a bit thin on the ground in Cardiff in 1981.

The pages of illustrations were prepared on large sheets of Permatrace with Rotring and Pelikan Graphos pens, with numbering and text added with Letraset. The completed drawings were photographed on to sheets of line film and then printed by hand on A4 photographic paper in the darkroom of the Archaeology department, usually late in the evening.

Published papers

Papers derived in whole or part from the thesis include:

Late Iron Age pottery in south-east England and northern France (Chapter 9)

Tyers, P.A. 1980. ‘Correspondances entre la céramique commune La Tène III du sud-est de l’Angleterre et du nord de la France’. Septentrion 10: 61–70.

North Gaulish coarse ware imports to Britain (Chapter 9.5)

Richardson, B., and P.A. Tyers. 1984. ‘North Gaulish Pottery in Britain’. Britannia 15: 133–41.

Central Gaulish coarse wares (‘le type Besançon’ [sic]) (Chapter 6)

Tyers, P.A. 2001. ‘Camulodunum Type 262 : Central Gaulish Coarse Wares in Iron Age Britain’. In La céramique en Gaule et en Bretagne romaines : commerce, contacts et romanisation. Actes de la table ronde d’Arras, 23-25 octobre 1998, edited by M. Tuffreau-Libre and A. Jacques, 87–106. Nord-Ouest Archéologie 12. Berck-sur-Mer: Centre de Recherches Archéologiques et de Diffusion Culturelle.

Tyers, P.A. 2005. ‘Camulodunum Type 102.’ In Actes Du Congrès de Blois, edited by Lucien Rivet, 753–60. Marseille: Société Française d’Étude de la Céramique Antique en Gaule.

London region and Highgate Wood (Chapter 13)

Tyers, P.A. 1996. ‘Late Iron Age and Early Roman Pottery Traditions of the London Region’. In Interpreting Roman London. Papers in Memory of Hugh Chapman, 139–45. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Tyers, P.A. 2018. ‘The Pottery from Highgate Wood’. In The Roman Pottery Manufacturing Site in Highgate Wood: Excavations 1966-78, by A. E. Brown and H. L. Sheldon, 101–22. Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 43. Summertown, Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.

Various themes

Tyers, P. A. 1996. Roman Pottery in Britain. London: Batsford/Routledge.

P A Tyers

August 2021

Volume 1

1. INTRODUCTION

   1.1 The Background to the study of Late Iron Age and Early Roman pottery in Britain and Northern Europe 2.2 The Scope and Limitations of Artefact Studies in Archaeology

2. APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF POTTERY

   2.1 Kilns and Potters 2.2 Fabrics 2.3 Form 2.4 Pottery traditions

3. CHRONOLOGY

   3.1 Metal Objects 3.2 Amphorae 3.3 Campanian and Samian Ware 3.4 The Gallo-Belgic industry and its relations

4. THE ORIGINS OF WHEEL-THROWN POTTERY IN NORTHERN EUROPE

5. SOUTHERN GAUL

   5.1 The Toulouse region 5.2 Eastern Languedoc and the ‘Bouches-du-Rhone’

6. SOUTHERN BURGUNDY

   6.1 The Bibracte tradition: Origin and Early developments

      6.1.1 Bibracte
      6.1.2 The Saône Valley
      6.1.3 The Loire Valley
      6.1.4 The Massif Central: Forez and the Puy-de-Dôme
      6.1.5 Switzerland

   6.2 Augustan developments

      6.2.1 Britain
      6.2.2 Central France and Brittany
      6.2.3 The Rhineland
      6.2.4 Switzerland
      6.2.5 Southern Germany
      6.2.6 Northern Gaul

   6.3 Summary and Conclusions

7. THE SAONE VALLEY; THE GROOVED-NECK JAR TRADITION

   7.1 Origins 7.2 Later developments 7.3 Conclusions, and the origins of Usk forms 12 & 13

8. NORTHERN GAUL

   8.1 The Mosel-Nahe, Neuwied, Wetterau and Rhine Valley groups 8.2 The ‘Halterner Kochtopf’ 8.3 The Aisne-Marne group

      8.3.1 The Early Phases
      8.3.2 The Later Phases

   8.4 Flanders and Picardy

      8.4.1 The Somme Valley and Amiens
      8.4.2 Western Flanders
      8.4.3 The Lille region
      8.4.4 The Douai region

9. THE KENT-BOULONNAIS GROUP

   9.1 Boulonnais 9.2 East Kent 9.3 The affinities and chronology of the Kent-Boulonnais group 9.4 Later developments

      9.4.1 Kent
      9.4.2 Boulonnais

   9.5 Anglo-French trade in the first century A.D.

10. SOUTHERN CENTRAL ENGLAND

    10.1 Pre-Roman developments 10.2 The Alice Holt-Farnham pottery industry 10.3 The Silchester Area

       10.3.1 The 1890-1899 Pits
       10.3.2 The Occupation levels

    10.4 Hampshire and the Winchester-Southampton tradition

       10.4.1 Distribution & chronology
       10.4.2 Conical necked jars
       10.4.3 The origins of the Winchester-Southampton industry

    10.5 Savernake Ware

    10.6 The Upper Thames Valley

    10.7 Sussex

        10.7.1 West Sussex
        10.7.2 East Sussex

11. BRITAIN NORTH OF THE THAMES

    11.1 Vale of St.Albans

        11.1.1 Graves
        11.1.2 Settlement site pottery: The early phases
        11.1.3 The Prae Wood pottery
        11.1.4 The Buckinghamshire assemblages
        11.1.5 Summary and later developments

    11.2 Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire

        11.2.1 The Hardingstone-Moulton Park group
        11.2.2 The relationship between the pottery of Hertfordshire 
               and the Northamptonshire-Bedfordshire groups
        11.2.3 The Longthorpe fortress pottery

    11.3 The Late Iron Age and Early Roman pottery of Lincolnshire

    11.4 Trent Valley Ware, Derbyshire Ware and the ledge-rim jars of the Midlands

12. THE LOWER THAMES REGION

    12.1 West Kent

        12.1.1 Oldbury
        12.1.2 Patch Grove Ware

    12.2 Essex

        12.2.1 Camulodunum
        12.2.2 South Essex

13. THE GREATER LONDON AREA

    13.1 Pre-Roman

    13.2 The Highgate Wood pottery industry

        13.2.1 Phase I
        13.2.2 Phases II - IV
        13.2.3 The Black-Burnished 2 industry and Highgate Phase IV

14. THE LATE LA TENE AND EARLY ROMAN POTTERY INDUSTRY: A HISTORICAL SURVEY

    14.1 The Central and Eastern Gaulish Coarse Ware Industry 14.2 The Origins of the Augustan military coarse pottery of the Rhine and Switzerland 14.3 Military potting in Britain and the effects of the conquest 14.4 First and second century A.D. developments in Britain 14.5 The Later Roman situation

15. POTTERY, THE ECONOMY AND SOCIAL GROUPS

    15.1 The Processes of Change in the Pottery Industry 15.2 The Economic Structure of the Pottery Industry 15.3 Pottery: Distribution Systems & Social Groups

16. THE BELGAE

    16.1 Introduction to the Problem 16.2 Literary Sources 16.3 Pottery 16.4 Conclusions: the Belgae and Aylesford-Swarling

17. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

    17.1 The end of the Romano-British Pottery Industry 17.2 Future work and Outstanding Problems

Volume 2

18. FIGURES AND CATALOGUE

19. BIBLIOGRAPHY