L'atelier de potier de la Bourderie à Rezé (Loire-Atlantique) et sa production

Abstract

In 1996, preliminary excavations in a large agricultural plot situated in a semi-urban area southwest of the antique city of Ratiatum revealed a complex collection of underground ruins (roads, trenches, foundations associated with numerous tools and equipment characteristic of pottery production (over-kilned pieces, kiln éléments)). Two further digs in 1997 and 1998 confirmed the existence of a gallo-roman pottery workshop (circa 2nd century A.D.) that produced, among other things, a type of amphora never before encountered.