Ceramics and Atlantic Connections: Late Roman and Early Medieval Imported Pottery on the Atlantic Seaboard

Maria Duggan works on European Late Antique and early medieval archaeology, particularly focusing on late Roman and Byzantine pottery and long-distance exchange and contact. She is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Newcastle University and the British School at Athens, conducting research on the imported ceramic assemblage from Tintagel, Cornwall.Mark Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Newcastle University. He teaches and researches Late Antique, Byzantine and early Islamic archaeology in the Mediterranean and has a particular research interest in ceramics.Sam Turner works on medieval archaeology and the cultural heritage of landscapes, with particular interests in Britain, Europe and the Mediterranean. He has worked at Newcastle University since 2004, where he is now Professor of Archaeology and Director of the interdisciplinary McCord Centre for Landscape.

• FOREWORD – Maria Duggan, Sam Turner and Mark Jackson ; CERAMICS AND ATLANTIC CONNECTIONS 250-700 AD: THE AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE – Michel Bonifay ; A HANDFUL OF SHERDS: A RETROSPECTIVE LOOK AT IMPORTS IN ATLANTIC BRITAIN – Ewan Campbell ; BRITAIN IN THE ATLANTIC: LATE ANTIQUE CERAMICS AND CONNECTIONS – Maria Duggan ; A RED SLIP FLANGED RIMSHERD DISCOVERED IN IRELAND: AN EXPLORATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPOSITION AND PROVENANCE USING AUTOMATED SEM-EDS ANALYSIS (QEMSCAN) – Amanda Kelly, Martin Feely, Edward P. Lynch and Gavyn K. Rollinson ; MEDITERRANEAN POTTERY IMPORTS IN WESTERN GAUL DURING THE LATE ROMAN PERIOD (MID 3RD-EARLY 7TH CENTURY AD): STATE OF KNOWLEDGE – Joachim Le Bomin ; A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU! A NEW APPROACH TO DOMESTIC CERAMICS OF LATE ANTIQUITY (4TH–6TH CENTURIES AD) IN THE HEART OF AQUITANIA SECUNDA (SOUTH WEST GAUL) – David Guitton ; LATE ANTIQUE ATLANTIC CONTACTS THROUGH THE CASE OF GALICIA – José Carlos Sánchez Pardo ; LATE CONTEXTS FROM OLISIPO (LISBON, PORTUGAL): ESCADINHAS DE SÃO CRISPIM – José Carlos Quaresma ; LATE ROMAN IMPORTED POTTERY IN THE SOUTHWEST OF LUSITANIA: THE CASE OF TRÓIA (PORTUGAL) – Ana Patrícia Magalhães, Inês Vaz Pinto and Patrícia Brum

'Based on a symposium held at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University in 2014, Ceramics and Atlantic Connections, edited by Maria Duggan, Sam Turner, and Mark Jackson, contains a sequence of case studies of the imported ceramic assemblages of the Atlantic sectors of Ireland, Britain, Gaul, and the Iberian peninsula in the period c. 400-700 CE. It has been produced to a very high standard: big, glossy pages, overflowing with high-quality illustrations (many in color); precise, large-scale drawings of many different ceramic vessels; detailed maps; and an abundance of tables and charts with the underlying empirical data presented in sharp resolution. The individual essays are a little eclectic and the volume as a whole sometimes has the feel of an “interim report” meant for specialists (there is no index, for example), but the information presented here should be of interest to all students of the late-Roman and post-Roman west.'