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Pudding Pan - A Roman Shipwreck and its Cargo in Context (Paperback)
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Pudding Pan - A Roman Shipwreck and its Cargo in Context (Paperback)
Series: British Museum Research Publication, 202
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For more than 300 years commercial fishermen working in the outer
Thames estuary have recovered Roman pottery in their oyster
dredgers and fishing nets from the seabed in the vicinity of
Pudding Pan. However, despite numerous attempts to locate the
source of the material, this elusive site has remained undiscovered
beneath the waves. This book assesses the recovered assemblage from
Pudding Pan to determine the nature and location of the site.
Almost 700 artefacts have been retrieved from this area to date,
the majority of which are complete plain samian wares, one of the
key indicators of the widespread cultural reception of Rome, which
were undoubtedly transported throughout the Empire in huge
quantities. The exhaustive research presented in this book
convincingly argues that the material represents an unknown
proportion of a cargo from a Roman trading ship en route from
northern France to London that was deposited on the seabed between
AD 175 and 195; it is not yet clear whether the deposit represents
a shipwreck or a jettisoned cargo. Such a site is extremely rare
throughout the Roman Empire, particularly so in northern Europe,
and its discovery could play a crucial role in our understanding of
Roman trade. The search for the site continues, but this
publication offers the first detailed study of a seemingly
predominantly samian cargo in British waters and contributes a new
perspective on the organisation of trade and consumption in the
Roman era.
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