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Summary

Quantities of imported pottery, including amphorae and finewares, have been discovered at Bantham Ham dating from the first century BC to the 15th century AD.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019322: Roman settlement site at Bantham Ham

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX64SE/10/1

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Medieval - 698000 BC to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, SX64SE 4 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV148063.

Jenkins, H. L., 1902, Ancient Camp at the Mouth of the Avon, 21-2 (Article in Serial). SDV147927.

Pottery found by Jenkins.

Fox, A., 1954, Untitled Source, 277-8 (Article in Serial). SDV148066.

Re-examined by Fox. Included imported ribbed amphora sherds of 5th to 6th century date.

Fox, A., 1955, Twenty-Second Report on the Archaeology and Early History of Devon, 322, Fig 1 (Article in Serial). SDV148060.

One iron age sherd, similar to pottery of late 1st century BC/early 1st century AD from Milber Down (see PRN 8649), found amongst pottery at Bantham.

Fox, A., 1955, Untitled Source, 55-67 (Article in Serial). SDV148064.

Illustrated and described by Fox together with later finds from a midden site. These included imported amphora of 2 types, and cooking pot fragments of 5th and 6th centuries. Several sherds of medieval pottery have also been found on the site, dating from the 13th to the 15th century.

Peacock, D. P. S., 1969, A Contribution to the Study of Glastonbury Ware form South-Western Britain, 58 (Article in Serial). SDV135837.

Reference to Iron Age pot in Gazeteer.

Thomas, C., 1981, A Provisional List of Imported Pottery in Post-Roman Western Britain and Ireland, 12,17 (Article in Serial). SDV140321.

Thomas identifies the amphorae sherds as being of 'BII' and 'Bmisc' type.

Silvester, R. J., 1981, Untitled Source, 105-6 (Article in Serial). SDV148065.

20 sherds, of Roman and Post-Roman date recovered in 1978 excavations. Most were small, and may originally have been raw material for the manufacture of spindlewhorls. Sherds included Samian, 'BII' and 'BI' amphorae, and 'E' ware.

Fox, A., 1995, Tin Ingots from Bigbury Bay, South Devon, 22 (Article in Serial). SDV323321.

Horner, B., 2014, Ceramics and Trade on the Atlantic Coast, 3 (Article in Serial). SDV358512.

Imported pottery found in Bantham suggests that it had direct trade links with Spain.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds

• FDV3124 - POT (Lower Palaeolithic to Unknown - 698000 BC)
• FDV507 - POT (Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)
• FDV505 - POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FDV501 - AMPHORA (V - 401 AD to 500 AD)
• FDV502 - POT (V - 401 AD to 500 AD)
• FDV506 - POT (Post Roman - 410 AD to 700 AD)
• FDV503 - POT (XIII - 1201 AD to 1300 AD)
• FDV504 - POT (XV - 1401 AD to 1500 AD)

Associated Events: none recorded

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