Principal illustrator: David Fricker. Contributions from: M. J. Baxter, Philip Crummy, M. P. Heyworth.
The main aim of this volume is to publish the glass found during the excavations of 1971-85 in Colchester and to compare the assemblages from the different sites. The opportunity has also been taken to give a broad overview of the glass in use in the town and the surrounding area as a whole. Naturally the glass found in Colchester is influenced by the history and status of the town; as already noted, no other Romano-British town has such a rich and varied mid 1st-century assemblage. From the later 1st century onwards, however, the vessel assemblage contains most of the forms found on other Romano-British sites and is broadly comparable with these. This volume has been planned to provide a synthesis against which assemblages from other sites can be viewed. To this end, the evidence for the date and distribution of each form will be discussed in detail. Not all of the forms found in Roman Britain will be included, but sufficient will be studied for the volume to provide an easily accessible summary of the current state of knowledge about the use of glass vessels in Roman Britain.
Author(s): Hilary E. M. Cool, Jennifer Price
Series: Colchester Archaeological Reports, 8
Publisher: Colchester Archaeological Trust
Year: 1995
Language: English
Pages: 464
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
Background
The structure of the report
The sites 1971-85
Balkerne Lane 1973-6
Butt Road 1976-9
Crouch Street 1971
Culver Street 1981-2 & 1984-5
Lion Walk 1971-4
The Cups Hotel 1973-4
The Gilberd School 1984-5
Long Wyre Street 1978-9
Middleborough 1978
St Helena's School 1975
Trinity Street 1977
Castle Gardens 1978
The dating evidence from the sites
Factors influencing the disposal of glass
Terminology
Definition of types
Methods of quantification
The glass found during the Colchester excavations 1971-85
CHAPTER 2: Cast objects and vessels
Introduction
Pillar-moulded bowls (1-184)
Cast objects (185-188)
Polychrome mosaic vessels (189-192)
Strongly-coloured monochrome vessels (193-208)
Colourless vessels (209-231)
CHAPTER 3: Mould-blown vessels
Introduction
Cylindrical cups depicting scenes from the circus and arena (232-239)
Vessels with vegetal designs (240-242)
Ribbed cups (243-245)
Miscellaneous mould-blown vessels (246-248)
Colourless mould-blown vessels (249-252)
CHAPTER 4: Polychrome blown vessels
Early Roman vessels (253-275; see also 764)
Snake-thread glass (276)
Painted glass (277)
CHAPTER 5: Cups and beakers
Hofheim cups (279-331)
Cylindrical and conical beakers with ground rims and wheel-cut and/or abraded decoration (332-351)
Indented beakers (385-393)
Arcaded beakers (394)
Facet-cut beakers and related forms (395-410)
Vessels with high-relief cutting (411)
Facet-cut cups and other facet-cut fragments (412-425)
Colourless wheel-cut beakers (426-464)
Cylindrical cups (465-540)
Stemmed beakers or flasks (541-542)
Hemispherical cups with fire-rounded rims (543-550a)
Miscellaneous indented beakers (551-552)
Hemispherical cups and conical beakers (553-614)
Beakers, cups or bowls with out turned fire-rounded rims (615-629)
CHAPTER 6: Bowls
Tubular-rimmed bowls (630-692)
Bowls with wide out-turned rims (693-698)
Canthari and other vessels (699-701)
Vessels with cut-out folds (702-712)
Shallow plates and bowls with fire-rounded (713-719)
Indented truncated conical and segmental bowls(720-731)
CHAPTER 7: Jars
Collared jars (732-764)
Jars with tubular and rolled rim edges (765-806)
Jars with funnel mouths and rim edges rolled in (807-827)
Jars with fire-rounded rims (828-857)
Jars with vertical necks (858-859)
Pear-shaped jars or beakers (860)
Hat-shaped unguent jars (861)
Inkwells (862-866)
CHAPTER 8: Jugs
Medallions from jugs (867-870)
Globular and conical jugs of Isings Forms (871-983)
Short-necked globular jugs (997 & 1032)
Spouted jugs (1005-1006,1017-1018 & 1037-1042)
Globular and ovoid jugs with funnel mouths (1001, 1019, 1045-1050, 1052-1053 & 1160-1161)
Ribbed colourless globular jugs (1030 & 1031)
Small globular jugs with rod handles (1164)
Miscellaneous jug fragments
CHAPTER 9: Flasks and unguent bottles
Amphorisks (1165-1169;
Flasks with sheared rims (1170-1171)
Flasks with funnel mouths and rolled rims (1172-1175)
Ovoid flasks (1176)
Miscellaneous flasks with folded or rolled rims (1177-1181)
Mercury flasks (1182-1183)
Spherical flasks with cracked-off rims (1184-1187)
Indented flasks (1188-1189)
Bath flasks (1190-1209)
Tubular unguent bottles (1210-1242)
Truncated conical and discoid unguent bottles (1243-1250)
Indented unguent bottles (1251-1253)
Miscellaneous unguent bottles (1254-1261)
Rim, neck and shoulder fragments from jugs or flasks (1254-1261)
CHAPTER 10: Miscellaneous forms and body fragments
Miscellaneous bases (1452-1649)
Miscellaneous decorated body fragments (1655-1832)
CHAPTER 11: Bottles
Prismatic and cylindrical bottles (1834-2239)
Colourless wheel-cut cylindrical bottles (2243-2244)
Funnel mouthed cylindrical bottles (2245 &2257) and miscellaneous cylindrical bottle fragments (2247-2255)
Bottles with multiple compartments (2258)
Frontinus bottles (2259-2262)
Dolphin-handled bottles (2263-2264)
CHAPTER 12: Waste
Glass waste from production processes (2265-2274)
CHAPTER 13: An overview of the glass vessels from Colchester
Introduction
Chronological overview
Period 1: AD c 43-60/1
Period 2: AD 60/1 c100
Period 3: c AD 100-170
Period 4: c AD 170-230
Period 5: c AD 230-300
Period 6: c AD 300-350
Period 7: c AD 350-400+
Overview of function
CHAPTER 14: The origins of the glass vessels in use in Roman Colchester
Introduction
The evidence from literary sources
The evidence of the vessels
The evidence of glass-working sites
The supply of glass vessels to Colchester
CHAPTER 15: The vessel-glass assemblages from the sites
Introduction
The domestic sites
The Cemetries
The pattern of glass use
BIBLIOGRAPHY - Abbreviations and References
CONCORDANCE - Catalogue number listed by site
Balkerne Lane
Butt Road
The Gilberd School
Inner Relief Road B
Inner Relief Road C
Lion Walk
Long Wyre Street
Maldon Road
Middleborough
St Helena's School
Trinity Street
INDEX 1-4
INDEX 1: Places and sites in Britain
INDEX 2; Vessel and object forms
INDEX 3: Names and inscriptions
INDEX 4: General Index
MICROFICHE
