This volume publishes papers relating to new research on Roman period ceramics. Two papers present evidence of Late Iron Age and early Roman pottery forms and fabrics from west and east Kent: from West Malling, including transitional wares, and by Sholden villa, with groups of second century date including samian. Ceramic fire-dogs discovered in the area of the Dutch Lowlands and Flanders brings to attention a type of find that may prove to be more common than previously noted. The same may be the case with portable Roman ceramic ovens and baking plates recorded in recent years in Britain; these two papers contribute to a growing corpus and debate on Roman cooking, ‘fast-food’ and functions. Amphorae from the eastern Mediterranean in northern Europe and pottery used in Roman ritual and religion noting distinct types and trends often involving symbolism are dicussed. Details of the pottery production site at Snape, Suffolk, and the types produced, are described. This volume also features ‘retrospectives’ as Beth Richardson, Peter Webster and Christopher Young reflect on their careers and experiences working with pottery, looking to the future and the volume also contains reviews and obituaries.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Editorial Board
• Contributors to this Journal
• Editorial
• Obituaries
  • David Peacock by Roberta Tomber
  • Cathy Tester by Jo Caruth
  • Phil Jones
• 1. The import and distribution of eastern amphorae within the Rhine provinces: Tyler V. Franconi
• 2. Roman pottery in ritual contexts: types, fabrics and manipulations: Constanze Höpken and Manuel Fiedler
• 3. An early Romano-British double flue pottery kiln at Church Road, Snape, Suffolk: Antony R.R. Mustchin and Andrew Peachey, with contributions by John Summers
• 4. Roman pottery groups from the excavation of pits, a cremation and other features at Sholden, Kent: Rob Perrin with a contribution by J. M. Mills
• 5. Bread and circuses, cutlets and sausages? Romano-British prefabricated ovens and ceramic baking plates: Jane Evans, with Alison Heke and Andrew Peachey
• 6. Curved ceramic firedogs in the western Low Lands (Flanders and the western Netherlands) in the Roman era: Jeroen van Zoolingen
• 7. A Late Iron Age and early Roman pottery assemblage from Leybourne Grange, West Malling, Kent: Edward Biddulph with a contribution by Sean Patrick Quinn
• 8. Fifth and sixth century African Red Slip and Late Roman C wares from Ossonoba (Faro, Algarve, Portugal): the assemblage from Horta da Misericórdia: Edgar Fernandes
• 9. Pottery Retrospectives
  • Beth Richardson
  • Peter Webster
• 10. Reviews
  • The Arverni and Roman Wine. Roman Amphorae from Late Iron Age sites in the Auvergne (Central France): Chronology, fabrics and stamps by Matthew Loughton, 2014: Reviewed by Robin P. Symonds
  • Insight from Innovation: New light on archaeological ceramics, edited by E. Sibbesson, B. Jervis and S. Coxon, 2016: Reviewed by Edward Biddulph
• Résumés (Abstracts in French)