Allen, J. R L. (1999). Magor Pill Gwent Multiperiod Site, Post-Medieval Pottery, and the Shipping Trade. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 10. Vol 10, pp. 130-131. https://doi.org/10.5284/1069457. Cite this via datacite
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Magor Pill Gwent Multiperiod Site, Post-Medieval Pottery, and the Shipping Trade | ||||||
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the Romano-British pottery, and status as a port. A postscript | ||||||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 10 | ||||||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary | ||||||
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Over the period from the late 16th century to the mid 18th century, the landing place at Magor Pill on the Gwent coast received pottery by water from chiefly four sources. Whereas wares travelled down the Severn and its estuary from the Malvern Chase (up to 1633) and Stroat industries, the potteries in South Somerset and, particularly, North Devon supplied wares from across the Bristol Channel. The other wares recorded are in very low ratios, but originate as far afield as Essex, the Surrey-Hampshire border, the Midlands and North Wales, and the Continent. Welsh industries seem to be unrepresented The pottery imported at Magor Pill is largely of the kind that would have been needed In the immediate hinterland for the making and export of dairy products. Finewaresfor the table are few. There is archaeological evidence for the export of livestock from the site, probably for fattening in the West and Southwest of England. The highest proportion of recorded wares came from the Bideford-Barnstaple area of North Devon, located on navigable estuaries. The prominence of these wares at Magor Pill illustrates well the cost-advantages of cheap water transport in the early post medieval period, which allowed North Devon products to be vigorously traded at many ports and landing places on the Severn Estuary, and upriver, the Bristol Channel, the Cornish and South Devon coast, the coast of lreland, and in the .Channel Islands and mainland France. Burgeoning British settlements in the West Indies and on the American East Coast were also supplied with pottery from North Devon. There was an important secondary dispersal from Cornwall, Wales and Ireland of North Devon jars and crocks (lidded jars), which were used in the export of butter and salted fish. In the wide dispersion of its wares chiefly by water, the North Devon pottery industry may be compared to the long-lived Romano-British enterprise of Southeast Dorset (BBi). | ||||||
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