The Aldgate Potter: A Maker of Romano-British Samian Ware

Simpson, Grace

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“…4. The case of the 'Aldgate-Pulborough' potter (Simpson 1952;Webster 1975) will not be discussed, as too little evidence is available. 5.…”

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Actor-Network Theory's Take on Archaeological Types: Becoming, Material Agency and Historical Explanation

Oyen¹

2015

CAJ

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Within the recent popularity of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) in material culture studies, scholars tend to lose sight of its origin in ethnography of laboratory work. In particular, ANT studied how scientific facts are constructed and stabilized in laboratories so that they become universally accepted, seemingly platonic, categories. This paper returns to this initial insight, and links it to the long-standing issue of archaeological types. Analysis of the practices of production, consumption, and distribution of terra sigillata-Roman archaeology's most salient pottery type-shows how it became a category, how it was stabilized as such, and how this process imbued sigillata with specific agentic properties that allowed it to shape the range of possible actions in the past. By reframing platonic types as constructed categories, they can become active elements in our historical narratives.

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“…4. The case of the 'Aldgate-Pulborough' potter (Simpson 1952;Webster 1975) will not be discussed, as too little evidence is available. 5.…”

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Actor-Network Theory's Take on Archaeological Types: Becoming, Material Agency and Historical Explanation

Oyen¹

2015

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“…8 The 22-bead circle (FIG. 2, g) is used frequently by Ioenalis, often as an ovolo substitute, as it is by our potter (see Simpson 1952, 1 and 5). Ioenalis (with others) also used the triple-leaf ornament n, and the column seen on No.…”

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“…Form 37. This is a small example of the form which is again free-style; it has the very small ovolo b also used forSimpson 1952, 3 and 4. Clearly this ovolo, like ovolo a, was impressed with a single poingon rather than a roulette.…”

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More British Samian Ware by the Aldgate-Pulborough Potter

Webster¹

1975

Britannia

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Recent work on the samian ware from a settlement site at Wiggonholt, Sussex, has revealed fragments from a number of vessels by one of the few potters to attempt the production of samian in Roman Britain. This man was called the ‘Aldgate Potter’ by Dr. Grace Simpson on the basis of a waster from the Aldgate, London, now in the British Museum. However, Dr. Simpson also illustrates mould-fragments belonging to this potter from Pulborough, Sussex, only about one mile from the find-spot of the Wiggonholt fragments which are the subject of this article. As neither waster nor moulds seem likely to have travelled far from the kiln site, it is not at present possible to be certain whether the centre of this potter's production should be sought in London or Sussex, or whether perhaps he operated in both places at different times. However, the Wiggonholt material shifts the geographical balance of known find-spots of the work of this man strongly in favour of Sussex and, in view of this, it seems reasonable to give the Sussex mould-fragments equal significance with the Aldgate waster. The potter is, therefore, called here the ‘Aldgate-Pulborough Potter’.

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