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Camulodunum type 262, le type Besançon and Central Gaulish granite-tempered ware
Summary of distribution in département 37-Indre-et-Loire (France)
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| Site name |
Description |
| Amboise |
Amboise lies on the Loire,
some 80 km east of Orléans
(Collis 1975, 193 gives a brief summary of the archaeology of the site).
Occupation levels dating to the first century BC
have been investigated
at the Les Chatelliers site.
The material from fosse 4 at this site
includes a large number of vessels in TF1 --
jars of class 1 and 2
(samples
B115-6,
B119,
B124-5,
B129),
but none of the smaller
Cam.262
variety.
There are no other moulded-rim jars in the group,
but simple necked jars in a
hand-formed coarse ware
inclusions of quartz,
plagioclase feldspar and white mica)
and other finer grey and black wheel-thrown vessels.
The group apparently also includes a Dressel 1b amphora
(of which there are a large numbers from some contexts at the site),
but no samian or other early-Roman fine wares
-- a date in the second half of the
first century BC may be suggested.
Jars of class 2 in TF1
have also been recovered from the
bed of the Loire at Amboise,
in one instance
several were apparently `stacked together'
(Information from M. Peyrard,
who suggests that the vessels are from a wreck).
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| Tours |
There is a little material
from Tours which indicates occupation
in the pre-Augustan period,
in particular a number of Dressel 1 amphoras
including an example of variant 1a,
The few contemporary coarse wares are
plain necked-jars and bowls.
The early Roman levels on site `1'
includes numbers of
jars of form C262 in TF1
Fig.13,10-14)
and a finer jar of form C102
(Fig.13,15)
which are associated with samian wares
(particularly the early micaceous products of Lezoux)
of Tiberian and Claudian date
and other early Roman fine wares.
Other large storage jars with micaceous fabrics
from the same contexts show,
in thin-section (
B222),
inclusions of quartz,
muscovite and biotite mica
and feldspars.
Although this need not be a local ware,
the larger proportion of
muscovite marks it out from TF1.
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| Vernou-sur-Brenne |
The assemblage from Vernou-sur-Brenne
described and illustrated by Maugard (1977)
is perhaps particularly notable for the large number of amphoras -
some 290kg in total and including 40+ examples of the Dressel 1a
variety.
These are accompanied by a range of coarse ware jars and bowls
with plain rims and rather simple profiles,
but one group of a dozen or so jars with horizontally moulded rims
is picked out and described separately on page 18 of the report
in the following terms:
Lot d'une douzaine (planche XX).
Ce sont des vases globulaires tournés dont la pâte est grumeleuse,
micassée et brute de tournage sur la paroi extérieuse de la panse,
lisée sur le col et à l'intérieur.
Les cols forment une gorge nettement prononcée:
dès le départ de la panse,
en ressaut, un décor incisé en accents graves ou aigues.
Les lèvres sont franchement éversées,
souvent horizontales, avec 2 ou 3 cannelures.
Sur le tesson fig.9 les incisions sont en chevrons.
This description clearly indicates that these vessels
fall within the typological range of TF1 class 1
but unfortunatly this cannot be confirmed by examining the drawn examples
as in all copies of the volume of the
Revue Archéologique du Centre
containing Maugard's paper seen by the writer
the relevant illustration (Planche XX) is missing.
The published fabric description may suggest that the jars are in TF1,
but this awaits confirmation.
It is unfortunate that more details are not available
about what is clearly an interesting site.
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 Location map : 37-Indre-et-Loire (France)
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