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great significance for local pottery studies in general,
providing a classic example of the urban potteries that were a feature of
the first two centuries of Roman Britain (Fulford 1977b). These three
industries are each discussed in their own right (Chapters 5 and 6).
Consideration of production and retail costs has led to the
abridgement of the original thesis (Pollard 1983a) for the purpose of the
publication of the evidence therein presented. The descriptive chapters
have been retained or reworked, whilst discursive treatises have, with
regret, been omitted for
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the most part (excepting the present Chapter 6, a
reworking of the original Chapter 9). The four original chapters
that are not published herein in one form or another cover the following
ground:
Chapter 5. An analysis of the Kent pottery and its
relationship to material from neighbouring counties, based upon the
construction of a series of spatial and temporal style-zones, degrees of
similarity within which and between which are measured by Jaccard's
correlation coefficients (see Chapter 2 below);
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