14th November 2014, 09:20 AM
So the mass production mass consumption is based on the roads. Not only does the road allow there to be an anonymity between producer and consumer it sets up a market that allows comparison with every passing cart for quality, part of the quality involves the ability of the pot to survive transportation along the roads, just one instance of bouncing pot along a short section of metalled road would require not only competition in how to pack the objects but that the objects should be free of incipient faults along which cracks may start. The consumer also expects to move these pots up and down the road. Some of these consumers possibly spend all of their time on the roads and can spot a suspect pot when they see one. If you look at most med pot it's touch and go whether you have found another kiln waster. Even when they get glazing its used like a miserable after thought. They spend a lot of time trying to get thick strap handles to dry onto thin walled baggy pots which they get pre school children to decorate. Even post conquest is there any common pot/types let alone forms which have moved any great distance. Romans have the spare time to produce mortaria without pestles and have whole porifera of robust pot types and forms which any average digger will be bored by after the first six months of their apprenticeship.
As dino suspects the Romans switch the lights out on the roads and leave behind people who don't seem to use them much and possibly in some areas seem to be dead set against going anywhere near the roads. What's funny is that it might have been people that the Romans may have tolerated precisely because they lived a life that might have evolved because the Romans may have banned them from using the roads as that was what the romans were using to subjugate them. I imagine that the Romans would consider all the current problems with the scoti and the north down to the pathetic mishmash what is known as the great north road.
As dino suspects the Romans switch the lights out on the roads and leave behind people who don't seem to use them much and possibly in some areas seem to be dead set against going anywhere near the roads. What's funny is that it might have been people that the Romans may have tolerated precisely because they lived a life that might have evolved because the Romans may have banned them from using the roads as that was what the romans were using to subjugate them. I imagine that the Romans would consider all the current problems with the scoti and the north down to the pathetic mishmash what is known as the great north road.
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist