Our next conference will be held in Leicester on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd June in collaboration with the Centre for Historical Archaeology at Leicester University on the theme of ‘Ceramics and drink’.
The registration form can be found here.
Past conferences organised by the MPRG.
Our next conference will be held in Leicester on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd June in collaboration with the Centre for Historical Archaeology at Leicester University on the theme of ‘Ceramics and drink’.
The registration form can be found here.
The following papers were presented:
Radiocarbon dating of carbonised food residues from London shelly ware pottery – Professor Gordon Cook
‘You’re the kind of carbon I can date’ – breaking circular arguments – Derek Hall
Title to be confirmed – Alex Woolf
Twelve sherds from the Bryggen site: context and complications – Gitte Hansen
Title to be confirmed – Vibeke Martens
Scottish Dendrochronoloy – Dr Ann Crone
A new new dating technique for ceramics (provisional title) – Chris Hall
Stratigraphy? – Duncan Brown
Gerald Dunning Memorial Lecture – Vicoria Bryant
Two sealed medieval pits in Haddington – Tom Addyman
The Bon Accord site in Aberdeen: its pottery and dating – Mike Roy and George Haggarty
Recent works at St Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen: pottery and dating – Alison Cameron
Use life of pottery, glass and tobacco pipes from five post-medieval closed find groups in London – Chris Jarrett
Title to be confirmed – Lyn Blackmore
Title to be confirmed – Claire McCutcheon
An introduction to the archaeology and medieval ceramics of Perth – Derek Hall
Occam’s razor and its application to ceramic studies, or too much erudition makes you blind. (Paper given in memory of the late Sarah Jennings) – Dave Evans
Dealing with rubbish in a medieval town: a ceramic case study – Ben Jervis
Decoding deposition: the use of spatial analysis in determining post-deposition ceramic trajectories – Imogen Wood
Everything you didn’t want to know about medieval pottery from York – Anne Jenner
Assessing the medieval pottery of Northumberland – Andrew Sage
The Scottish ICP-MS Redware Project – Derek Hall and George Haggarty
The MPRG annual conference was held at Sheffield over two days in May 1999.
The aim was to promote collaboration and discussion across regional, chronological and institutional boundaries and stimulate fruitful dialogue. Delegates and speakers were encouraged from prehistoric, Roman and medieval interest groups.
Lectures broadly covered processing and interpretation of ceramics from deposition to final publication. Specific areas of discussion focused on cross-regional fabric studies; fabric archives; minimum standards of processing; methods of interpretation including formation processes and skeuomorphs; and new methods of communication using the internet and virtual reality.
Visits were arranged to view relevant sites and ceramics.
Some papers from this conference have been published in Medieval Ceramics 22-23
The following papers were presented:
(MC* denotes published paper in Medieval Ceramics Vol.*)
The right information in the right place: putting pottery into context – John Oxley, City of York Council
The origins and development of Late Saxon pottery in 9th and 10th century Mercia – Paul Blinkhorn, Oxford Archaeological Unit
Influence or immigrants? Foreign influence on English pottery c.900 to 1200 AD – John Cotter, Canterbury Archaeological trust
Pottery at Saint-Denis, 10th to 12th century – Nicole Meyer Rodrigues, Unite d’Archaeologie de Saint-Denis
Alien and mundane: pots in the metropolis 900 to 1200 – Lyn Blackmore and Jacqui Pearce, Museum of London Archaeological Service
Putting the cart before the horse – or – talking about the Saxo-Norman pottery of Staffordshire (MC22-23) – Deborah Ford, City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent
Chester’s pottery after the conquest – the missing years? – Julie Edwards, Chester Archaeology
The following papers were presented:
(MC* denotes published paper in Medieval Ceramics Vol.*)
Pots and people: a review of past papers Maureen Mellor, Vice President of MPRG
Ceramics and the history of consumption: pitfalls and prospects (MC21) Dr Paul Courtney, Freelance Archaeologist
All the fun of the fair…buying pottery in medieval Herefordshire Derek Hurst, Archaeological Service, Hereford and Worcester County Council
From dairy to dining room: evidence for changing ceramic use in the 18th century Dr David Barker, City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Cheapish and Spanish. Meaning and design on imported Spanish pottery (MC21) Alejandra Gutierrez, King Alfred’s College, Winchester
The duality of a commodity: German stoneware as a utilitarian and social medium Dr David Gaimster, British Museum
Misplaced faith? Medieval pottery and fieldwalking (MC21) Dr Christopher Gerrard, King Alfred’s College, Winchester
Site formation processes: theory and results Stephanie Ratkai, Archaeological Service, Hereford and Worcester County Council
The Romsey Rubbish Project Dr Kris Lockyear, Institute of Archaeology, University of London
Worcester Cathedral, with its outstanding Norman crypt, stands on the banks of the Severn at the south end of the medieval High Street. The Cathedral Archaeologist, Mr Chris Guy, will bepresenting the results of recent excavations within the precinct.
The Museum of Worcester Porcelain houses the world’s largest collection of Worcester porcelain including some of the first pieces made by the company, and examples of commissioned andexhibition pieces from the 18th century to the present day. The curator, Mr Harry Frost, will give an introduction to the collection
Royal Worcester is the modern expression of a tradition of pottery production in Worcestershire which stretches back to the Roman period and beyond. A tour of the factory, founded in 1751,will give delegates an opportunity to see behind the scenes as well as to visit the seconds and clearance shops.
Medieval Islamic pottery (MC21) Dr David Whitehouse, Director, Corning Museum of Glass, USA
Vessels of other materials: an aceramic view from London (MC21) Dr Geoff Egan, MoLAS
Some considerations of the use of pottery Tristan Bareham, East Sussex Archaeology and Museums Project
“The post-Roman pottery assemblage from West Cotton comprised 107,643 sherds…” Paul Blinkhorn, Oxford Archaeological Unit
Pots in houses (MC21) Duncan Brown, Southampton
A chance to look at excavated assemblages from the City and County.
Dean and Chapter of Worcester Cathedral
Mrs Jane Faiers
Friends of Worcester City Museum
Hereford and Worcester County Archaeological Service
The Museum of Worcester Porcelain
Past Times
Royal Worcester
Worcestershire Archaeological Society
Worcester City Council Dept of Leisure Services
Sorry – no details available at present
The following papers were presented:
Synthesis: the beginning of the end or a new start? – Maureen Mellor, Freelance ceramics researcher, Oxford
Pots galore: presenting pottery to the public – Judith Stevenson, Dept of Early London History and Collections, Museum of London
Pottery by numbers – Duncan Brown, Archaeology Unit, Southampton City Council
Drawing to a conclusion – Anna Slowikowski, Bedfordshire County Archaeology Service
Pick and mix: the integrated pottery report – Irena Lentowicz, Norfolk Archaeological Unit
Sherds, pots, assemblages? What are we publishing, why and how? – Clive Orton, Institute of Archaeology, London
(MC* denotes published paper in Medieval Ceramics Vol.*)
Historical Introduction to Cologne
The current state of research into ceramics of the area
The Mayen industry from 7th to 11th centuries: a study in changing distribution – Mark Redknap
Results of Neutron Activation Analysis on ceramics from the Mayen industries – Henning Stilke
Pottery production in Cologne – Sven Schutte
Pingsdorf wares, a typology (MC19) – provisional
Technology in the Rhenish ceramics industry – provisional
Distribution of German stonewares in Norway and Sweden – Ian Reed
An incomplete review of German stonewares imported into medieval Denmark: dating, spread and distribution – Per Kristian Madsen
German stonewares imported into the Netherlands – Jan Baart
German stonewares in Flanders: imports, consumption and competition – Frans Verhaeghe
German stonewares imported into Britain – John Hurst
The Trade in medieval pottery around the North Sea (MC19) – Alan Vince
The following papers were presented:
A recently excavated assemblage from Nottingham and its research context – Alan MaCormick and Bob Alvey
East Midlands Reduced Ware – new evidence from Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire – Anna Slowikowski and Paul Blinkhorn
Recent work on pottery from two production sites of Limpsfield Ware in East Surrey – Phil Jones
Proposed work on the early post-medieval pottery from Ticknell and the implications for the study of East Midlands ceramic groups – Alan MaCormick
Research Designs for production centres – Varian Denham and Sarah Jennings
A specification for the processing and analysis of medieval ceramics from production sites – Alan Vince, Ian Freestone and Clive Orton
Reference collections for material from production sites – Beverley Nenk
The following papers were offered:
(MC* denotes published paper in Medieval Ceramics Vol.*)
Chairs: John Hurst and Peter Davey
Late Medieval Imports into Hull and the Humber Ports – Dave Evans
Norway: an overview (MC18) – Ian Reed
London (MC18) – Lyn Blackmore and Alan Vince
The imported pottery of Late Medieval Southampton (MC17) – Duncan Brown
The South West (MC18) – John Allan
Waterford: the imported ceramics – Audrey Gahan
Chair: Charlie Murray
Imports of Spanish pottery to England in the Later Middle Ages: documentary evidence (MC17) – Wendy Childs
Wrecks – Bob Thomson
Late Medieval pottery on Dutch shipwrecks and a well-dated inventory of the early 15th century (MC17) – Karel Vlierman
Chair: Bob Thomson
Normandy stonewares and related earthenwares – Bob Burns
Martincamp and Beauvais (MC17) – Pierre Ichnowitz
Chair: David Gaimster
Imported pottery in the Bruges area (MC17) – Bieke Hillewaert
Dutch Redwares (MC18) – Jan Baart
Rhenish stonewares – Sven Schutte
No Sex, some H-M and Lots of Fine Trade: medieval ceramic studies in Italy (MC17) – Hugo Blake
Chair: Hugo Blake
Italian pottery exported during the 15th and 16th centuries (MC17) – Marco Milanese
Ligurian Tablewares, 13th-16th centuries – new archaeological and thin-section data (MC17) – Fabrizio Benete, Sergio Sfrecola and Sandro Gardini
Chair: to be arranged
Una panoramica de las producciones hispanas y de reflejo metalico de los siglo XIV al XVI (MC18) – Javier Marti
Coarseware from Western Andalusia (1300-1650) (MC17) – Alfonso Pleguezuelo-Hernández
Chair: Frans Verhaege
Travelling pottery – a European overview – Frans Verhaege