Technological knowledge and transfer of Roman pottery production in Civitas Nerviorum (northern France, central Belgium) during the 1st–3rd centuries CE

Roman pottery waste from Civitas Nerviorum (France, Belgium)•Technological Knowledge and Transfer of Roman Pottery Production.•Roman Pottery Workshops in northern France and central Belgium. Aspects of 1st to 3rd centuries CE Roman production technology and knowledge transfer in northern France and central Belgium (known as Civitas Nerviorum) were studied. To this aim, 43 pottery waste fragments from six workshops at Bavay, Pont-sur-Sambre, Blicquy, Cambrai, Les Rues-des-Vignes and Sains-du-Nord were studied macroscopically and analysed in thin section petrography and chemistry with X-ray... Mehr ...