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

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.

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)