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TEGULAE - Manufacture, typology and use in Roman Britain (Paperback)
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TEGULAE - Manufacture, typology and use in Roman Britain (Paperback)
Series: British Archaeological Reports British Series
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Ceramic building material, particularly roofing material, is one of
the most common finds on Romano-British sites, yet despite its
abundance, it has been relatively little studied. Whole books have
been devoted to relatively minor pottery types, but it is extremely
rare for a book to devote as much as a single chapter to ceramic
roofing material. This book is devoted to the study of ceramic
roofing material, primarily tegulae. It considers how they were
made and develops and dates a typology. It looks at the role of
stamps and signatures and how these can inform the study of when
and by whom the tegulae were made. It analyses how the tiles were
fitted onto pitched roofs, how these roofs were constructed and
proposes four stages in their evolution. It suggests that tegulae
might also have been used on some vaulted roofs. Finally the
logistics, costs and economics of tile manufacture and distribution
are addressed. The book follows a logical sequence considering
first how tegulae were manufactured, next their typology and then
their dating in order to prepare the ground for the subsequent
chapters on stamps and roof construction. The final chapter brings
all the evidence together to examine the economic and social data
that can be derived from a study of tegulae, grouped together as a
single site. In contrast, where a useful assemblage of tiles has
come from an individual site within a town, this has been
identified separately from other assemblages within the same town.
If these separate assemblages within the same towns are aggregated
together then the number of individual sites falls from 104 to 85.
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