To browse Academia. The English edition of my PhD thesis originally in Dutch, on the South Gaulish terra sigillata with potters' stamps from the site of the Roman fort at Bunnik-Vechten. In its final building phase from the late 2nd and 3rd centuries AD the fort measured c. The fort s of the 1st and early 2nd centuries - when the South Gaulish terra sigillata arrived - may have been larger. The site has produced one of the largest collections of terra sigillata in the Northwest, as demonstrated by the stamped South Gaulish vessels discussed in this thesis.
In a collection of this size chronological trends and other patterns may be distinguished which remain invisible in smaller samples. The study includes an extensive discussion of the evolution of the stamped forms and of the organization of their production. The stamp catalogue differs in three respects from the more recent corpus of Hartley and Dickinson : 1 all variants are discussed individually; 2 illiterate and otherwise unidentified stamps have been included; 3 the stamps are illustrated by photos identified stamps or rubbings unidentified stamps instead of drawings.
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