Abstract

Este trabajo analiza el suministro de materiales constructivos cerámicos de época romana de Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. La mineralogía y la composición química del material latericio se han analizado con láminas delgadas y microscopía electrónica de barrido. En el caso de esta “pequeña ciudad” romana se ha demostrado la presencia de una producción local de tegulae que, en ocasiones, se transportaban a 50 Km de distancia por carretera. La composición del material empleado para la fabricación de algunas tegulae es análoga a la utilizada en la producción de grandes jarras de almacenamiento en las cercanías del parque de Stowe, Buckinghamshire. En este sentido, se analizan los mecanismos y la logística que permitieron la producción y el transporte a larga distancia de estos materiales y se discuten los factores sociales y económicos que intervinieron en su proceso de producción y adquisición. El estudio demuestra, además, la importancia de la investigación de estos elementos constructivos sencillos que ofrecen para registro arqueológico informaciones y visibilidad a los estratos sociales más bajos.

Highlights

  • Research into Roman architecture and construction has in the past tended to focus on the grandest cities, buildings, and materials in the empire

  • Fabric J is characterised by a very different texture, showing very few discrete inclusions, abundant small sub-rounded pores, the presence of what appears to be grog temper, i.e. broken fragments of ceramic added to the unfired clay during production, and a very different bulk chemistry to the most frequent fabric groups, having a very high calcium content

  • The first is that the coincident manufacture and mixed cargo distribution was highly effective, leading to the cost of pink grog-tempered ware Ceramic building materials (CBM) being similar to or less than that of more locally produced material, despite the highly significant road journey involved: the presumably valuable jar contents essentially subsidising the transport of the CBM

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Introduction

Research into Roman architecture and construction has in the past tended to focus on the grandest cities, buildings, and materials in the empire. Transport of these bulky products, either storage jars – presumably full, adding to their weight, the contents of the pink grog-tempered ware jars is not yet known (Booth and Green 1989: 83; Taylor 2004: 65) – or tiles, posed challenges.

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