The latest issue of long running, highly regarded Journal, this issue focuses on new methodological approaches and initiatives alongside reports on new discoveries at major pottery production centres.

The new volume of the long-running Journal of Roman Pottery Studies will include conference proceedings of the 2019 conference held at Atherstone, Warwickshire, and the 50th anniversary conference of the Study Group for Roman Pottery held online with Newcastle University. Papers reflect on recent advances in methodological approaches and their applications, the past and future role of the society and new initiatives in archiving policies and their implications. It will also contain a number of papers outside these conferences that focus on pottery production, notably of colour-coated wares in Lincoln and in the province of Noricum, as well as a report on the glass working furnace discovered alongside the pottery production kilns at Mancetter-Hartshill. Book reviews and obituaries are also included.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Editorial Board
• Contributors to this Journal
• Editorial
• Obituaries
• 1. Glass-working at Mancetter-Hartshill
• 2. Fifty years (or perhaps 49) of the Study Group for Roman Pottery
• 3. Article 3: Reflections on the past and considerations for the future on the objectives of the SGRP
• 4. Why study Roman pottery? Surely the men have done it already!
• 5. National initiatives in archaeological archiving
• 6. Pure and sample: An assessment of the impacts of sampling on the interpretation of a Roman pottery assemblage from the A14C2H excavations
• 7. Means to an end: The use of average sherd weights and rim percentages to better understand ceramic fragmentation and deposition patterns
• 8. Communities of practice in 2nd–5th century AD pottery production: A case study from south-western Noricum, Austria
• 9. A late Roman ‘Nene Valley colour-coated ware’ kiln site beside the River Witham at Lincoln in 2009
• 10. Reviews
• Résumés (Abstracts in French) translated by Sophie Chavarria
• Zusammenfassungen (Abstracts in German) translated by Franziska Dövener