La Figlina del Vilasec (Alcover, Alt Camp): un centre de producció ceràmica de l'Ager Tarraconensis

Identifier:  TDX:4255

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX4255

Authors:  Roig Pérez, Josep Francesc

Abstract:
Our investigation aims to broaden the knowledge about the production centers of pottery in the area of the Ager Tarraconensis. The lack of archaeological interventions in an extensive way of the various manufacturing centers has caused that the interpretations for understanding the organization, distribution, internal logic, chronology and production capacity of a specific figlina are very limited. So, it is in this context with the increase of archaeological works and the progress about our knowledge of this kind of manufacturing complex where this study should be included. The archaeological intervention at the site of the Vila-sec has allowed to identify a production center which has a surface around 2300 m² and three chronological phases (from the time of the emperors Tiberius-Claudius to the beginning of the III century AD) with a total of twelve pottery kilns, six settling basins for clay, a kneading trough, tegulae channels, a large warehouse and some areas used to the treatment, moulding and drying the ceramic items. The exhumed ceramic material has made allowed us to know that in the industrial workshop of the Vila-sec was manufactured tableware, cooking ware, thin-walled ware, architectural ceramics, pondera, hispanic terra sigillata, lamps and amphorae of Dressel 2-4 and late Dressel 2-4 types.