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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2012
The potters who left the declining South Gaulish Samian factories in order to start their own workshops at Lezoux, in Central Gaul, experienced in their turn the loss of potters who, after learning the craft, went away to start the many small Samian factories which existed in East Gaul and Germany during the second and early third centuries. Many of these were so successful that their products were used in quantity in north-east Gaul and the Rhineland, and even reached many sites in Britain. To mention only a few, the wares from Lavoye and La Madeleine are notable at Corbridge and South Shields, and much Trier ware has been found at Corbridge.
1 The piece is now in the Yorkshire Museum, York; I am indebted to Mr. Eric Birley for a discussion of its implications.
2 cf. Hull, M. R., ‘Eine Terra-sigillata-Töpferei in Colchester’ (Germania 18, 1934, 27–36Google Scholar).
3 Proc. Soc. Ant. XXIII, 127, fig. 5.
4 Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain 1922, 109; M 1546, presented by the directors of the Metropolitan Railway, found at Aldgate extension works.
5 The numbers correspond to the drawings on fig. 5.
6 Thomas May published only part of the Samian ware from that site, and this sherd is not included in his The Pottery from Silchester 1916.
7 cf. Dr.Felix, Oswald's two papers on this potter, JRS XIX, 1929, 120 f.Google Scholar, and XXI, 1931, 251 f.
8 Sixteen of the types have Déchelette and Oswald numbers, as follows:—
9 D. 158, 818 bis, 834, 868, and 969 ter.
10 Miss Anne Newlyn, B.A., made the careful drawings, and by shading has given an impression of the finger-marks and smears that were the Aldgate potter's finishing touches.
