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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

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 

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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