In the past our recognition of Gaulish pottery in Britain has been largely confined to products of Central, Southern and East Gaul. It is significant that this pottery is, almost without exception, oxidized and/or colour-coated; the study of grey wares has traditionally lagged behind that of the more classical slipped table wares, and this has resulted in a somewhat uneven picture of Roman trading patterns. Coarse grey pottery, with its more utilitarian function, has not proved easy to define and date on stylistic grounds, and ‘miscellaneous grey wares’ have often been dismissed as the products of unknown local kilns, or, as form and fabric analysis have improved, described as unprovenanced imports. In the last ten years we have become increasingly aware of the complexities of the coarseware industry, and more receptive to the possibilities of long distance and inter-provincial trade. Gillam, Farrar and Webster have drawn attention to the evidence for large scale transportation of coarsewares by sea and Fulford has demonstrated that the products of larger British coarseware industries, Alice Holt/Farnham ware, and Black-Burnished ware 1 and 2, are found in small but significant quantities in Northern France. This paper describes a greyware type which was imported from Northern France into Britain. It stems from research on the late second-/early third-century pottery from New Fresh Wharf, London (B.R.), and the coarseware industry of Gaul (P.T.) and accordingly incorporates two sections reflecting these different aspects, with a concluding discussion by both authors on the British distribution.

Craft debris and finished artefacts in Reading Museum's Silchester Collection are used alongside current understanding of Romano-British urban intensive carcass processing and object assemblages to re-assess the evidence for bone- and antler-working in the town over that period.

Marcham/Frilford is a large religious site with a temple, an amphitheatre and a central shrine feature. Adjacent to the shrine is a large fourth-century structure containing a significant deposit of coins, hobnails and bones. The absence of diffusion of the tiles from the temple roof to the wider site suggests that it continued to function as a religious complex throughout the Roman period; therefore the large structure is unlikely to have been a building which would have blighted the shrine but was more probably an altar platform where rituals were performed in conjunction with it.

The attributes of Mercury include his purse and winged sandals and one of his animal companions is the cockerel. Purse brooches are few in number, but shoe sole and cockerel brooches occur at Temple 10 at Colchester, a centre of the god's cult, and at other temples, and both also occur in graves, reflecting Mercury's role as the guide of dead souls. Fly brooches have been found at both Temple 10 and Uley, also a centre for Mercury worship, and in a grave, and may be a fourth type associated with the god.

A military diploma of 2 July a.d. 133 (RMD I, 35), first discovered in 1960 but published several times since, has provoked a debate concerning the origin of the discharged soldier, with commentators proposing either Corinium in Britain or the Cornacates in Lower Pannonia. The new reading presented here suggests that the soldier was actually Cornovian, allowing a reassessment of the recruitment of Brittones in the Roman auxilia.