Crafts and community in the past and present: engaging local communities with their Roman past using ceramic radiography

手工艺和社区项目致力于为社区团体提供实用的，体验性的见解，了解北安普顿郡未被重视的罗马时期的工业遗产，基于对古代文物的前沿分析。该项目将与北安普顿郡考古资源中心（ARC）、克兰菲尔德大学和当地的制陶大师Rob Bibby合作，利用MOLA的ahrc资助的数字x射线系统进行短期的学术研究，以调查与北安普顿郡现代县的上内内谷陶器有关的罗马陶器的生产方法。来自该行业的罗马陶瓷器皿（目前由ARC保管）的射线照相分析将被分析，以揭示制造这些物品的方法的痕迹，这代表了罗马占领该地区第一代的重要而不为人知的创新特征。通过这样做，项目的这一部分将以同行评审的形式形成自己的学术成果，发表研究成果，为正在进行的关于早期罗马农村经济变化的讨论做出贡献。分析的结果也将成为一系列为期四天的工作坊的基础，工作坊由陶工大师、考古陶瓷专家和尖端的3D打印技术提供帮助，让当地的参与者感受一下在遥远的过去，这个时期的日常工作生活是什么样的。参与者将有机会在这些工作坊中设计自己的体验，并像考古发现一样对自己的工作坊制作的陶器进行x射线检查。研究和参与活动的结果将在位于惠灵顿堡切斯特农场庄园的ARC的一个快闪展览中展示，参与者将与MOLA和ARC的工作人员一起帮助设计。

The Crafts and Community project endeavours to provide community groups with practical, experiential insights into Northamptonshire's underappreciated Roman-period industrial heritage based on cutting-edge analysis of ancient artefacts. Working with the Northamptonshire Archaeological Resource Centre (ARC), Cranfield University, and local master potter Rob Bibby, the project will conduct a short programme of academic research utilising MOLA's AHRC-funded digital x-ray system to investigate the production methods used in making Roman pottery associated with the Upper Nene Valley potteries in the modern county of Northamptonshire. Radiographic analysis of Roman ceramic vessels from this industry - currently held by the ARC - will be analysed to reveal traces of the methods used to make these objects, which represent an important and ill-understood innovation characteristic of the first generations of the Roman occupation of the area. In so doing, this part of the project will form its own academic output in the form of peer-reviewed, published research contributing to ongoing discussions of the changing early Roman rural economy. The results of the analysis will also be the basis for a series of four half-day workshops - facilitated by master potters, archaeological ceramics experts, and cutting-edge 3D printing technology - on Roman pottery-making, giving participants from the local area a feel for what daily working life was like in this period of the distant past. Participants will have the opportunity to design their own experiences within these workshops, and to have their own workshop-made pottery x-rayed like the archaeological finds. The results of the research and engagement activities will be presented in a pop-up exhibition at the ARC at Chester Farm Estate, Wellingborough, which participants will help to design along with MOLA and ARC staff.