This half-day symposium, Distant seas, Connected Worlds: Tintagel, Britain and Greece in Late Antiquity, will consider ceramic production and maritime distribution in the Aegean and East Mediterranean, and long-distance links between Greece, the West Mediterranean and South West Britain during the 5th to 7th centuries AD.
The Symposium is presented by the British School at Athens, the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences and Newcastle University.
Programme
14:00
Arrival and Registration
14:30-14:45
Prof. John Bennet, Director, British School at Athens
Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi, Fitch Laboratory Director
Welcome and Introduction
14:45-15:15
Jacky Nowakowski FSA, Archaeologist, Tintagel Castle Archaeological Research Project (TCARP) Director and Independent Researcher on behalf of Cornwall Archaeological Unit and English Heritage
Recent excavations 2016-2017 at Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, UK. Investigating the character of post-Roman settlement
15:15-15:45
Dr Maria Duggan, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Newcastle University and the BSA
Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi, Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens
Dr Noémi S Müller, Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens
Linking Britain and Greece in Late Antiquity: Aegean and East Mediterranean ceramics at Tintagel and in South West Britain
15:45-16:15
Prof. Paul Reynolds, ICREA, University of Barcelona
Tracing exports and commercial routes from East to West: placing the ceramic assemblage and glass factory of Benalúa (Alicante) in context
16:15-17:00
Break
17:00-17:30
Dr Charikleia Diamanti, Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades, Hellenic Ministry of Culture
Aegean pottery production and mechanisms of its control and distribution in the 5th-7th century
17:30-18:00
Prof. Stella Demesticha, University of Cyprus
Late Roman amphorae in the eastern Mediterranean in their maritime contexts
18:00-18:30
Prof. Sam Turner, Newcastle University
‘On the whale-road to the wine-dark sea? Considering maritime connections in the early Middle Ages’
18:30-19:00
General Discussion