KAOLINITIC WARE FROM MONTE MOLIÃO (LAGOS PORTUGAL)

Abstract

The archaeological excavations carried out in Monte Molião since 2006 allowed to collect an abundant set of ceramics, among which the common ware stands out. At the levels corresponding to the Roman occupation, particularly those of the imperial period, there are fragments of vessels which, due the fabric and the forms, could be associated with Gallic imports. This is what, in the archaeological literature, is known as “kaolinitic ware”. In this group, not especially abundant, the jars are the best represented form. Their function would be to contain and serve liquids, but which may also have been used as boilers. The Rhone valley workshops were almost certainly the export centers of the ceramics found on the Algarve site, exports which, according to stratigraphic data, occur from the end of the first century to the second century.