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The Roman Pottery of Kent
by Dr Richard J. Pollard  -  Chapter 2  page 16
Doctoral thesis completed in 1982, published 1988


Fig. 6. Sites of c. A.D. 220—300.

   The construction of a type-series of forms found within the study region may be considered a desirable objective, and a working model has been established by the present author for use in the synthesis of material from Canterbury. This model follows the lines laid down by Tyers and Marsh (1978) for the Southwark Roman pottery, with some revision in the classification hierarchy involving the separation of body shapes from rim-and-neck forms, in order to facilitate the allocation of significant body sherds (such as folded or decorated pieces) to a standard type without assuming a specific rim to have been present. The method

 devised by Tyers and Marsh has the advantage of being ‘open-ended’, enabling forms unknown at the time of compilation to be inserted in a logical progression. This facility was afforded by Kenyon’s type-series of the Leicester Jewry Wall assemblage (1948), and by Cotton’s type-series of Southampton material (1958), but the use of a continuous numerical sequence for each form (e.g. flagons) irrespective of type (e.g. dish rim) by the former, and the inconsistent hierarchy of the latter have restricted their value. Other type-series have opted for a simple numerical

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