Killock, D. and Meddens, F. M. (2005). Pottery as plunder:. Post-Medieval Archaeol 39 (1). Vol 39(1), pp. 1-91.

Title:

Pottery as plunder:

Subtitle:

a 17th-century maritime site in Limehouse, London

Issue:

Post-Medieval Archaeol 39 (1)

Series:

Post-Medieval Archaeology

Volume:

39 (1)

Page Start/End:

1 - 91

Biblio Note

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Publication Type:

Journal

Abstract:

The site at 43--53 Narrow Street, located in the Ratcliff area, produced finds relating to the period of London's expansion as a mercantile centre during the seventeenth century. Discoveries included a late-fifteenth-century brick clamp, and building remains with associated pits and ditches dating from the sixteenth through to the eighteenth centuries. The remains dating from the late-sixteenth through to the end of the seventeenth century proved to be former properties of people with a maritime focus, probably heavily involved in piracy and privateering. The pits and ditches, particularly those of seventeenth-century date, were filled with pottery, glass and other objects, a significant proportion of which originated in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, Iran and China, and many of the examples recovered have otherwise rarely if ever been found in Britain. It is argued that the most appropriate interpretation of the finds assemblage is as the remains of booty and global mercantile and illicit trade at a time that access to the New World and the Far East was being opened up and fought over. The discoveries offered an opportunity to view a seventeenth-century community of seafaring families from the perspective of their land-based material culture and the remains of their homes. The paper focuses on the development of the site from the late medieval period to the early-eighteenth century, and places the finds for this period in their historical context. Includes specialist reports on

Author:

Douglas Killock
Frank M Meddens

Year of Publication:

2005

Subjects / Periods:

Eighteenth Centuries (Auto Detected Temporal)
	PIT (Monument Type England)
Pottery Glass (Auto Detected Subject)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
Brick Clamp (Auto Detected Subject)
	DITCH (Monument Type England)
	SHERD (Object England)
Earlyeighteenth Century (Auto Detected Temporal)

Note:

[OS TQ 3617 8086]

Source:

BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))

Created Date:

15 Aug 2005