Wytwórczość ceramiki rzemieślniczej w dorzeczu górnej Warty i Widawki w okresie rzymskim i okresie wędrówek ludów

The subject of this article is a craft pottery in Przeworsk culture from the part of Central Poland specified in the title. We know 16 pottery kilns from the local settlements: Siemiechów – 1, Konopnica – 1, Walków-Kurnica – 1, Tądów Górny – 1 i Tądów Dolny – 2. The rank of the pottery center we can admit just to a settlement in Chabielice – where 10 pottery kilns was discovered. The pottery workshops had to work in a settlement in Wola Piekarska, which is proved by the unparalleled accumulation (97% of the collection) of the wheel thrown pottery (fig. 1). The article discusses also the construction of the pottery kilns and the organization of the pottery workshops, as well as the issues of the technological and formal-stylistic diversification of the pottery collections from the archeological sites. A general tendency of the local specifics of the craft pottery has been observed. The comparative consideration covered the areas of the largest gatherings of the craft pottery workshops, Lower Silesia and western Lesser Poland. The progress in the researches and the identifications of the further workshops convinces us that the pottery trade found in the basin of the upper Warta and in the basin of Widawka was not incidental. In the chronological terms this phenomenon has occurred within C2-D1 phases of the Roman period and the Migration period.