Dear All,
If there is a clear process of identifying belgic brick from context, comparative material or type / fabric series, then as a candidate term it sounds a good bet. However, I'm sure there are lots of fragments belgic bricks out there that have been identified as "tile", "Roman tile", or even "fictile material". Perhaps the thesuari need to be reviewed in respect of CBM, so that there is a least a general category / term for unspecified or unattributable CBM.
Cheers,
Neil
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Dear all,
'Belgic Bricks' are thin flat circular or rectangular plates of fired clay,
mostly between about 28-38mm thick, with squared edges and at least one flat
face. Usually of late Iron Age or early Roman date and thought to be clay
oven or kiln plates. (Apologies to Stewart Bryant if I've produced a garbled
description...through ignorance!).
Note to Edmund Lee:
Exegesis HBSMR enforces the MDA Object Thesaurus, which doesn't allow 'Fired
Clay' or 'Ceramic' as a material type, or 'Oven Plate' as an object type.
At present we will have to enter our 'Belgic Bricks' as 'Pottery' for
material and as 'Brick' or 'Kiln Furniture' for object type, neither of
which are completely satisfactory. Is it possible for the SMR community to
submit candidate terms for the MDA Object Thesaurus?
When we migrated the SMR database to Exegesis HBSMR we retained our existing
finds terminology within one of the user-defined fields as I find it
extremely useful for searches and far more flexible than the MDA thesaurus.
Having originated as a museum-based SMR, with the SMR initially being the
only computised index to much of the museum's archaeological collection, our
finds recording was actually quite well-developed! We had 'Belgic Brick' as
a finds type.
Julia
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