| Title: |
Ceramic Petrology and the Study of Anglo-Saxon and Later Medieval Ceramics
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| Issue: |
Medieval Archaeology 49 |
| Series: |
Medieval Archaeology
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| Volume: |
49
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| Page Start/End: |
219 - 245 |
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| Licence Type: |
ADS Terms of Use and Access
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| Publication Type: |
Journal
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| Abstract: |
A survey of archaeological ceramic thin sections held by institutions and individuals in the United Kingdom was undertaken in the early 1990s by the City of Lincoln Archaeology Unit and funded by English Heritage. Over 6,000 thin sections of Anglo-Saxon or medieval date (or reports on their analysis) were located. For the Middle to Late Anglo-Saxon and the post-Conquest periods, these studies have confirmed that pottery production was carried out in a limited number of centres and that most pottery, including handmade coarsewares, was therefore produced for trade. The distances over which pottery was carried vary from period to period but were actually as high or higher in the Middle to Late Anglo-Saxon period as in the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries. However, for the Early Anglo-Saxon period (and the Middle Anglo-Saxon period outside of eastern England) the evidence of ceramic petrology is equivocal and requires more study. These 6,000--odd thin sections represent a resource which could be used for various future studies, some of which are discussed here, and as an aid to their further use a database containing information on the sampled ceramics, their location and publications of their analyses will be published online through Internet Archaeology. |
| Year of Publication: |
2005
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| Thirteenth To Fourteenth Centuries (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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| Middle (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Postconquest (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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SHERD
(Object England)
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| Ceramics (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Ceramic Petrology (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Handmade Coarsewares (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Ceramic (Auto Detected Subject) |
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| Source: |
ADS Archive
(ADS Archive)
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| Created Date: |
12 Apr 2006 |
