Nene Valley Color Coated Ware

Nene Valley Culture

Age : Great Britain in Roman times Absolutely : 2-4 Century AD (Great Britain)

Nene Valley Pottery in the Wisbech Museum.

Nene Valley Color Coated Ware (also Castor Ware ; often abbreviated as NVCC ) is a type of Romano-British ceramic found in the lower valley of the River Nene in the vicinity of Durobrivae (now Water Newton in England ). The finds date from the middle of the 2nd century to the 4th century AD.

Manufacturing

Pottery production in the area began in the middle of the 1st century BC. The first workshops are associated with the Roman military camp near Longthorpe . The manufacturing facilities expanded several miles along the Nene Valley between Wansford and Peterborough in the 2nd century . The center was near the Roman city of Durobrivae. Other workshops were at Stibbington , Sibson-cum-Stibbington , Chesterton , Yaxley , and Stanground .

structure

NVCC graffito shard with staining and structure of the shard.

The NVCC ceramic is a hard, smoothly textured body with fine, irregular hairline cracks . Usually the pieces are painted white to off-white. The engobe (casting compound) is dark brown or black, sometimes speckled orange. The emaciation consists of very fine quartz sand , red or orange and black sprinkles and occasionally pale pieces of clay.

Shape and ornament

NVCC vessels have a characteristic repertoire of shapes and decorations. The most common shape are cups, both with bead-shaped edges and in the form of a bag. Where there is decoration, barbotine (slip painting , above and below the glaze), punctures and grooves occur. At the beginning there are some hunting scenes in barbotine design, while the objects from the third century tend to have a spiral pattern.

Collections

Museums with important collections of NVCC goods:

• British Museum
• Peterborough Museum
• Wisbech Museum

See also

• Prehistoric pottery in Great Britain

Web links

• Nene Valley Color Coated Cup with a hunting scene in the British Museum.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} V. G. Swan: Roman Pottery in Britain. ( Shire Archeology. ) Shire Publications, Aylesbury 1978, pp. 20-21.
2. ^ ^{A b c} G. Monaghan: Roman Pottery from York (= Archeology of York Series. 16/8). York Archaeological Trust, York 1997, ISBN 978-1-8724-1483-6 , pp. 893-896.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Nene valley Color-Coated Wares. potsherd.net , accessed July 21, 2017.
4. ↑ Longthrope vexillation Fort. RomanBritain.org , accessed on 21 July 2017.
5. ↑ Monument No. 361348 on PastScape, accessed July 21, 2017.
6. ↑ Monument No. 364464 on PastScape, accessed July 21, 2017.
7. ↑ Monument No. 364521 on PastScape, accessed July 21, 2017.
8. ↑ Monument No. 367063 on PastScape, accessed July 21, 2017.
9. ↑ ^{a b c} 'Nene Valley Fabrics' in the National Roman Fabric Reference Collection. ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Museum of London.