The Roman Economy
Week 5 Lecture 1 Pots and Pans
Mortaria, Coarse wares
& Marketing
Marketing Model 1
Savernake ware
Jars with everted rims
Reilly’s law of retail Gravitation
LC3 – C4 Finewares
Model 2
Churchill Orange WMJ
Alice Holt
Other Models
• Small scale rural production – supplying a
number of markets with large amounts of
overlapping
• Military Marketing ( Mortaria, SVW, BB)
Mortaria
• A large heavy bowl often with internal grits ( rock, flint,
slag).
• Flanged or wall sided
• Used for food preparation in the kitchen, and sometimes at
the table
• Hellenistic Antecedents. Popular in 1st century Italy – used
by the military.
• Dies out in the Mediterranean (apart from LC3 – C4 Syria).
• Used in NW Europe – Possibly not as originally intended
• Form continues into early middle ages ( Merovingen
variants C12)
Nantwich Mortaria
Sea Transport of Colchester Mortaria
Land Transport of Mortaria
Stamps from Italian Brickyards
Gaulish Supply
Gallo Belgica Supply
Mortaria Kilns
Mancetter-Hartshill and Oxford 1973
Mancetter- Hartshill V Oxford Mortaria
2010
N Syrian Basins and Mortaria
N Syrian Mortaria
Black Burnished Ware
BB1 Distribution
Horningsea
Horningsea
Hadrianic - Antonine
Horningsea
C3
Horningsea EC4
Holme-on-Spalding-Moor
Pink grog tempered wares LC3-C4
Fabric quantities
Form distribution
Zones of reach