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The Roman Pottery of Kent by Dr Richard J. Pollard
- Chapter 7 page 202
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988
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incorporation into the Saxon Shore system; were they 'parallel worlds'
independent of one another, similar merely because of a common
environment, or did the shared connections with iron-extraction and the
Imperial fleet serve to integrate them to some extent? The similarities
suggest that there was little that one could offer that the other did not
have already, and thus that economic relationships were unnecessary to the
well-being of either; but this must be a
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proposition to be tested, not an assumption.
The overall conclusion to be drawn from the present study is that
pottery can provide insight into a wide variety of issues that are of
significance to the archaeology of Britain and the Roman Empire; enthusiasm
must be tempered with a realisation of the limitations of the material
evidence. In the final analysis, pottery evidence is only as good as the
context from which it is derived.
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