The Study Group for Roman Pottery NEWSLETTER AUTUMN 2016 S.G.R.P. Website - www.romanpotterystudy.org. Remember to use our website for information and queries. If you would like to add an item, or suggest how the website may be developed, please contact Ed Biddulph Email:
[email protected] Other Contacts: Treasurer and Membership Secretary : Diana Briscoe, Email:
[email protected] Newsletter Editor: Andrew Peachey E-mail:
[email protected] News from the Committee A ‘Standard’ Newsletter Welcome Welcome to the Study Group for Roman Pottery Autumn 2016 newsletter; though it is anything but ‘standard’. The SGRP and its workings are underpinned by the key tenets laid out in the Groups’s Research Strategy, most recently in Journal of Roman Pottery Studies 11. Sometimes these may appear understated, but they are an important foundation stone (or pot). The promotion and unification of standards for the recording and archiving of Roman pottery has been a long term aim within this framework, and it was with great delight that ‘A Standard for Pottery Studies in Archaeology’ was unveiled at our recent conference. This document was the product of collaboration between the SGRP, the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group and Medieval Pottery Research Group, and was enabled due to a great amount of work by Paul Booth and Jane Evans of the SGRP, amongst others. Many of us work or study alongside specialists in other periods, and some of us are also members of the PCRG and MPRG, and this process has highlighted the benefits of cross-period co-operation and projects.