Kay Hartley Mortarium Archive Project
Kay F. Hartley, Ruth Leary, Yvonne Boutwood, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5284/1090785. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1090785
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Introduction
The Kay Hartley Mortarium Archive project has been developed by Kay Hartley, Ruth Leary and Yvonne Boutwood with John Leary, Ian Rowlandson and Hugh Fiske. In addition, Roger Tomlin gave stamp readings and comments on the onomastics. The Project has been funded by grants from the Haverfield Bequest, The Roman Research Trust, Historic England and the Study Group for Romano-British pottery and has been produced in collaboration with the Archaeology Data Service. Many thanks to these organisations.
The project aims to preserve an archive compiled, since 1956, by Kay Hartley, a leading international scholar in mortarium studies, covering all aspects of her mortarium studies This is a working archive for Kay’s personal use. It is only through Kay’s generosity that we now have access to them. The primary aim of the project is to secure the archive in a digital format for the use of other scholars. To date, the archive for mortarium potter stamps used by the Verulamium, Mancetter-Hartshill, and Lincolnshire industries has been digitally secured and is available for consultation here. The digital archive and website comprises the following:
- The record cards - downloadable
- The stamp rubbings - downloadable
- Catalogue of potters and dies by industry with downloadable scanned rubbings of each die
- Maps showing the distribution of potters stamps with searchable database of the sites
- Overview of each pottery industry
- Classification of the decorative borders used on many of the potters dies and a guide to how to use these to identify your stamped sherd.
- Queries to use to filter and select the potter and map data
- Queries to select the closest match for a stamp or stamp fragment you have found on a site and wish to identify
Work on the project is ongoing and we hope to add the data for further industries in due course. The site can be explored using the menu to the left.
