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The Roman Pottery of Kent
by Dr Richard J. Pollard  -  Chapter 2  page 11
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988

III.     Other communal settlements (cf. Ordnance Survey’s
             ‘Major’ and ‘Minor’ settlements —1978, 8);
IV.    Temples and shrines;
V.     Villas;
VI.    Other substantial buildings (including isolated
             bath-houses and ‘farm outbuildings’);
VII.   Rural occupation sites (including ditches, pits,
             isolated timber buildings, and surface scatters);
VIII.  Cemeteries, comprising ten or more burials in toto;
IX.    Cemeteries of less than ten burials, and individual
              interments;
X.     Industrial sites (including iron extracting and 
              smelting sites and salt extracting sites);
XI.    Potteries;
XII.   Tileries.

Chance finds of non-ceramic material have been omitted, it will be noted, as this system is designed specifically to enable the contexts of ceramic finds to be summarised. On the site distribution maps (Figs. 2—9) all sites of Classes Ito V and X to XII have been plotted, according to whether they have been the subject of personal examination by the present author, examination of publications only, or have not been examined in either form. Sites of Classes VI to IX are only plotted if the present author has looked at the material in publication, or at first hand. Temples and shrines associated with sites of Classes I and II are not plotted, as it is assumed that they functioned as an adjunct of these sites

rather than as sites in their own right or as a predominant feature of the site. The temple complex at Springhead, and the ‘shrine’ at Brenley Corner have been plotted as the former may well have dominated the life of the settlement while the latter appears to have outlived the settlement itself (Jenkins 1973; 1974).


Table 1. Key to symbols used on Figs. 2-9.

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