Medieval Pottery

British

• MPRG Bibliography online database hosted by the University of Liverpool
• Database of Medieval Pottery Production Centres in England
• PotWeb — medieval and later pottery in the Ashmolean, Oxford
• Worcestershire Online Fabric Type Series
• South Yorkshire/North Derbyshire Medieval Ceramics Reference Collection
• Museum of London Ceramics page
• Medieval Pottery Construction — how pots were made
• Two Medieval London-type jugs from Longmarket, Canterbury, by John Cotter
• A group of late medieval pottery from Exeter
• Medieval Pottery Cistern from Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Medieval Pottery from Excavations at Castle Garth, Newcastle, 1976-1992 Summary
• Medieval pottery at the University of Warwick 'Campus archaeology' site
• Late Medieval and Transitional Pottery from Weybread, Suffolk, by Sue Anderson
• Spoilheap Archaeology — medieval pottery and more!
• Archaeologia Cantiana, including research into the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Sarre, with pot pictures (see bottom of page) and medieval pottery in Dartford (Vol 88)
• Report on a geophysical survey on the Ham Green production site, North Somerset
• The Binsted pottery kilns, Sussex
• Medieval Pottery at Portmahomack, assessment by Derek Hall for the Tarbat Discovery Programme
• Face to face with medieval pottery: some observations on medieval anthropomorphic pottery in north-east England, by Chris Cumberpatch

Other European

• The Corpus Middeleeuws Aardewerk series on ceramics in the Netherlands and Flanders
• Rhenische Keramik Rhenish ceramics from the 14-19th C, including Lower Rhine Earthenware and contemporary ceramics
• Pottery excavated from a Carmelite friary at Esslingen: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
• Medieval Inkpot from Beauvaisis region
• Italian Maiolica at International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza

Asian

• Thailand Sukhothai-style 14-17th Century (including three pottery images)
• Japanese pottery

Miscellaneous

• Karen Larsdatter's Pottery Links (part of her impressive collection of links on Medieval and Renaissance Arts and Crafts)
• About Archaeology Ceramics page

Ceramic Building Material

• Museum of Medieval and Encaustic Tile
• The Archaeological Ceramic Building Materials Group
• British Brick Society
• Museum of Medieval Tiles — Historic Tile Company
• Medieval Tile Gallery
• Tiles on the Web

Post-Medieval Pottery

UK

• The Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
• Stoke-on-Trent - general site, including listings of all potteries in the area
• The Astbury Site - an 18th century Staffordshire potter
• Maling Ware collectors' website
• The Transformation of Tradition: the Origins of the Post-medieval Ceramic Tradition in Yorkshire, by Chris Cumberpatch

Other European

• Royal Delft - present-day factory, but includes a history of Delftware
• De Liebaart - Belgian 'living history' site

USA

• Jamestown - excellent site with pages of information about a variety of European post-medieval pottery
• African-American Archaeology - the Betsey Prince site (New York State Anthropological Survey)
• Illinois State Museum - At home on the fringes of the Prairie 1800-1850: ceramics
• Ceramic firepots - pottery used as incendiary devices, 16th-mid 17th centuries (Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A&M University)

Canada

• Central Trust Site 18th century ceramics - Nova Scotia Museum
• St. Mary's University ceramics database - index page to a wide variety of post-medieval pottery types
• 19th century pottery and porcelain in Canada from the National Ceramic Collection

Australia

• Pottery in British Colonial Australia

Art and antique sites

• ceramique.com - mainly an art site, but with a bookshop which includes some archaeological material. In French, some English.
• The Ceramics Web: big collection of links
• "Clayzee" World of Ceramics
• Potfest bookstore

Prehistoric and Roman pottery

• Pottery of native peoples in Canada
• Potsherd - introduction to Roman pottery

Experimental Pottery Firing

• Experimental Archaeology: Building a pottery kiln Canterbury Archaeological Trust
• The Northern California Experimental Firing Group build and fire pottery kilns based on archaeological models
• Different Pottery Kilns by Wali Hawes
• The Derbyshire Ware Project
• Experiments in early medieval pottery

Scientific Analysis

• Alan Vince Archaeological Consultancy — chemical and thin section analysis
• Laboratory for Ceramic Research, Lund University
• Roman Pottery - a German site with lots of useful links, including statistical, computing and scientific analysis applicable to all periods.

Other Pottery and Finds Groups

• Prehistoric Ceramic Research Group
• The Study Group for Roman Pottery
• Arch-pot email group — for discussion of British pottery of all periods
• Finds Research Group AD700-1700

Journals

• Medieval Archaeology
• Post-Medieval Archaeology

General Archaeology

• The CBA guide to UK archaeology online
• Archaeology on the Net — European Archaeology
• ARGE Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe
• The ArchNet World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology
• INRAP National Institute for Research in Preventive Archaeology (France)

Medieval Archaeology

• Society for Medieval Archaeology

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