By the time the Roman empire reached its greatest extent, in the early decades of the second century ad, wooden barrels were a key part of a trade network that supported a complex extended economy. These objects do not, however, routinely survive in the archaeological record and very few sites have yielded large, multi-phase, assemblages for study. Although relatively rare, individual finds and assemblages have been found sufficiently regularly to allow us to consider barrel production and use during the Roman period. These objects can have complex cultural biographies from their original production to their final deposition. Current and previous research at Vindolanda, a Roman fort in northern Britain at the edge of the Roman empire, provides a context for reflection on these objects and their biographies. Emphasis is given to whether this material demonstrates repeated, possibly habituated, practices of adaption and recycling.
Grâce à l'étude de plus de 200 fûts découverts en Gaule, en Bretagne et sur le limes rhénano-danubien, il a été possible de tracer des cartes de leur diffusion du Ier s. avant notre ère au IV s. de notre ère, et d'établir une première typologie du tonneau, dont trois groupes sur six sont destinés aux camps militaires. De l'époque augustéenne jusqu'à la fin du Ier s. de notre ère, la moyenne vallée du Rhône apparaît comme une très importante zone de production qu'il faut mettre en relation avec l'approvisionnement des troupes stationnées sur le limes. D'autres centres de production ont été distingués au coeur de régions viticoles : dans le Bordelais, autour de l'estuaire de la Loire, en Bourgogne, et dans le pays m,osellan.
Elise Marliere, Prospections in Steene-Pitgam : amphoras.
The prospections carried out on the Steene-Pitgam site by P. Ducrocq delivered a set of amphora material that seems to reveal a lot on the commercial currents of the southern part of the city of the Menapians. The fragments are indeed sparse and only the Gaul 4 and Dressel 20 are ascertained.
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