I'm not professional anything, Bea. I am an amateur who does an awful lot of field walking. I've found this piece and am struggling to understand what it is....
Dear Victoria Thanks for the leads on possible post-medieval British pottery people. I have had a couple of offers of help and will prepare jpg images. Another...
Yes, I am a professional potter. I also am a technologist and work with archaeologists and ceramic historians. There is, indeed, a lot of confusion over...
I believe some Byzantine glazed ware has recently turned up at excavations at Abington Abbey, carried out by Graham Keevil, altho' I don't have any specific...
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Bea Hopkinson
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Oct 15, 2003 1:15 am
Thanks for trying - I don't have yahoo but I'll check it out with earthlink. Bea...
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Bea Hopkinson
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Oct 16, 2003 8:21 am
... The problem of technology, as you say, is a major impediment to understanding reports, particularly when you have different specialists involved. I know...
Sorry, but all clays are NOT suitable for making pots. Many brick clays would not make pots; kaolins(china clay) are not suitable for potting without additions...
Hi I know I'm being lazy, but does anyone know a better reference for the sort of biconical cordoned vessel which is illustrated on Plate LXXVI? Its below the...
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Bea Hopkinson
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Oct 17, 2003 1:38 am
Andrew, Your note sounded angry and truly I was not questioning your knowledge, only your terminology which I wanted to better understand. ... I quite agree...
Dear Paul Blinkhorn Thank you - that is interesting. The salmon pink fabric sounds like Constantinopolitan white ware fabrics at the end of the 11th and...
Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service Archaeologist (Finds) and Archaeologist (Environmental) Local Government Scale 3: £13,581 to...
Does anybody know if there are any archaeological publications on Roman incense cups or if there is any archaeological evidence linking them with the burning...
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Jones, Alison
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Nov 3, 2003 10:13 am
Dear Richard, There was an interesting paper by Ray McBride on this very subject (entitled 'Tazze: an overview') at the 2003 Study Group for Roman Pottery...
I expect that most of you have already seen this on Brit-Arch, but I'm forwarding it just in case anyone has missed it. He will be a great loss. Yours ever ...
I'm trying to find out the origin of stones we call 'plough pebbles'. These are stones, sometimes flint, that have one flattened and scratched end. I ...
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Jude Plouviez
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Nov 11, 2003 5:51 pm
There are a couple in the West Stow, Prehistoric and Roman volume, S.West, East Anglian Archaeology 48, 1990 where they are assumed to be medieval and related...
I am currently reading the excavation report for the Mawgan Porth (Cornwall)dark age settlement excavation in the 1950`s.A lot of bar lug pottery was found. It...
Dear Mick, I think the report in the Mawgan Porth monograph is probably the most recent survey of the ware although someone out there may know different. The...
PLOUGH PEBBLES Naturally-occurring hard stones inserted into wooden ards & ploughs as protection from abrasion. Use discussed on pages 276-79 of Prof A....
Many thanks for this info. I didn't realise these things were so wide ranging. I'll certainly follow up some of your refs. Regards, Sue Beasley [Non-text...
Hi there This message is for the benefit of new members to this list (apologies for the cross posting): Being part of this discussion group you might be...
Dear all, I am building an access based database for pottery recording and reporting. At present it is based on the ocford unit and warwick museum system, but...
Yours ever Diana Diana C. Briscoe Archive of Anglo-Saxon Pottery Stamps 124 Cholmley Gardens Fortune Green Road London NW6 1AA Tel: +44--(0)20 7794--6300 Fax:...
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Bea Hopkinson
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Dec 7, 2003 11:58 pm
Don't we see this sort of thing in a Hellenic context where they were used as fireplaces? I am also curious as to how you would form a hole in a pot after it...
<http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=267637.4116732.5333197.1261774/D=egrou pmail/S=:HM/A=1853618/rand=134103327> Hello everybody, I'm in the second year of...
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Dec 9, 2003 11:29 pm
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the arch-pot group: In advance of a forthcoming paper could members answer the following question?...
