5th March 2008, 05:26 PM
A couple of years ago i was on a site at Market Rasen,and in one large pit (only a third dug by hand) there was 11 complete Roman grey ware pots in groups of 3, a ditch had 1 whole pot and a gully had another. In the pit i found that the pots must have been carefully placed as they were too tight together to have been dropped! Some time after the site i had chance to talk to Roman pot specialist Maggi Darling who thinks they could have been ritually placed.
Is this a wide spread practice for the period? and has any research been done on it?
Is this a wide spread practice for the period? and has any research been done on it?