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Supervisor meeting notes - 2021-08-16 - Coggle Diagram
Supervisor meeting notes - 2021-08-16
Just Kate and I present
Trip to Cirencester
Discussed Museum and villa visits
Close match between Bath CBM and CBM on display in museum
Must follow up contact with Corinium curator to view and compare LHS stamped tiles
Lots of recycling of CBM in late Costwolds villas, where is this CBM coming from? Why is so much reused? What does this say about earlier phases of building at or near the villa site?
While a bit of a tangent, this is valuable wider picture stuff which could definitely be incorporated into a post-doc project
Much appears as if it could be from Minety, though closer inspection may say otherwise
Significant implications for earlier phases of building at many of these sites which appear not to have previously been emphasised. How widely is this true and does it also apply to sites nearer Bath?
Hollow Voussoir Dimensions
Getting to grips with wide range of dimensions
Complex as overlap in dimensions between specific forms and also potential variation of +/-20mm from some measurements
Ideally would have tested fabric associations through co-occurence in hollow voussoir forms, but seems that fabrics must be used to differentiate hollow voussoir component sizes instead => less secure but needs must
Voussoir measurements and calculations have potential to test architectural hypotheses for many buildings at the complex
Match at Minety for Spring Reservoir forms
Need to visit Minety collection and see what other matches with fabric and form can be found once CBM analysis further along
New model idea
Discussed this in depth and should form the basis of my discussion chapter
Many aspects of this model will raise more questions, but these cannot be answered in the current project, just raised!
Will require further research into Roman economy, and Continetal organisation of brick and tile and stone production, ownership and supply
Is the understanding I have so far current and relevant? How has thinking progressed since Ward-Perkins and Helen's work?
This will be a very important proposal, so needs to be well-read and secure enough to be defendable but not so deep so as to be an enormous and detrimental time sink
New model is that post-med ideas are not transferable, as population was 1/6th the size, and demand was concentrated in 'Romanised' settlements, public buildings and villas, also road network was superior between these centres than in many later periods
Many rural settlements used little or no CBM, preferring traditional or local alternatives such as timber, thatch and wattle, and therefore local demand was not as universal as in post-med period
As the road network between settlements was good, indeed it only got worse until proper road improvements, transport was not such a major limiting factor
Discussion of this (more developed) idea with Mike Fulford will be hugely valuable
Kate also asked really interesting questions as to who was in control of kiln sites or quarries or public building projects
Continental and/or historical evidence has some answers, but application to Roman Britain will always be challenging
Must be better informed on evidence from other places if it plays a central role in my model
Scale of Minety kiln site(s) becomes a very intriguing question, if it did indeed fulfil single orders for many substantial public building projects in the West of England
Geology of the kiln site is complex, both stratigraphically and topographically, and has potential to yield different fabrics in a sequence. May be possible to date fabric types, but if a geological sequence idea is correct then the different fabrics will periodically reemerge as new clay pits are reopened
Really should have visted Minety while we were in the area!
Meeting with Stephen
Plan is 1. progress update 2. go through reasons for change in stone sampling 3. discussion
Prepping Stephen for new plan with stone sampling is the most important element of this meeting => progress update shows what I have done, not what I have found
October meeting will be the best opportunity to fully go through results of project
If there is results I want to share, perhaps prepare an agenda prior to the meeting and include these in there?
Stone sampling
Assumption is that HE will not approve sampling before end of project
New conditions are that sampling could be undertaken if permission received by end of Sept, but only if BU funding and Cliveden availability are already in place by that date, otherwise no
Take the 6 ex-situ samples forward as part of independent sampling to at least test some stone sources before the end of the project
Contact Cliveden ASAP and get new quote and timetable for when work could be undertaken in the next few months; obviously need permission from Stephen first!
Finish and submit ex-situ stone sampling proposal ASAP
Board Game
Explained usefulness of board game in making me think about who is responsible for projects in the Roman period, as well as how it actually simulated the rise to dominance of a single kiln site in one game
systems reminiscent of Agent-based modelling techniques, which involve reiterations of scenarios and conditions to observe what the results could look like
Kate loved it!
Definitiely take along to in-person meeting in October
Could even take it along for after the viva