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Journal of Roman Pottery Studies, Volume 7: A Corpus of Relief-Patterned Tiles in Roman Britain

by Ian M. Betts, Ernest W. Black and John L. Gower

This issue of JRPS is devoted to a comprehensive study of stamped decoration of flue tiles. There is a catalogue of the known patterns and a complete corpus of the known examples of each with their distribution. It is a volume that will be valuable for future reference as well as for an understanding of the manufacture and trade in the tiles. 167p, many figs (Oxbow Books, for the Study Group for Romano-British Pottery, 1997)

Table of Contents

Part 1
Introduction
Section 1: The history of the study
Section 2: The definition and importance of the study
Section 3: Illustration
Section 4: Identification
Section 5: Types of tile with relief-patterned keying
Section 6: Box-flue tile size
Section 7: Tile-kilns producing relief-patterned tile
Section 8: Thin setion and Neutron Activation Analysis studies (A.P. Middleton, M.R. Cowell)
Section 9: Relief-patterned tile fabric groupings
Section 10: Distribution of relief-patterned tile
Section 11: Dating methods
Section 12: Experimental work
Section 13: Literate patterns
Section 14: Relief-patterned tile from other provinces
Section 15: Relief-patterned daub (M. Russell)
Section 16: Conclusions

Part 2
Corpus Catalogue
Introductory remarks
Location of dies 1-124
Location of uncertain dies

Appendix
Additional London dies (1991-1993)

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