Annual Conference June 2004

Under the Influence
Examinations of change in the ceramic record

28th-30th June 2004,
King Alfred's College, Winchester

The theme of this conference was change, not only how we observe it within the archaeological record, but also how we have tried to explain it, and how our methodologies have developed. The programme brings together papers that consider aspects of ceramic production, distribution and consumption and includes an opportunity to view the medieval pottery assemblages recovered in Winchester. We are also offering walking tours of historic Winchester, and Mr. Hudson's fabulous medieval cookery class.

The following papers were offered:

("MC*" denotes published paper in Medieval Ceramics Vol.*)

Session 1 - Methodology

Alan Vince   Keynote Lecture: The Systematic Study of Medieval Ceramics: Half a Century of Progress?

Line Van Wersch   Study of the Merovingian production centre of Maastricht-Wyck: methods and results (MC28)

Diana Briscoe   The Archive of Anglo-Saxon Pottery Stamps

Jacqui Pearce   An approach to the analysis of Surrey/Hampshire Border Ware kilns at Farnborough Hill

Session 2 - Pottery Production

John Hudson   A Potter's Practical Approach to Clay Preparation

Barbara Flynn   Perspectives of a Production Potter

Penny Copland-Griffiths   Social Effects on a Country Pottery Industry at Verwood, Dorset

Session 3 - Influence, Innovation, Distribution

John Allan   Some early modern documentation for foreign and coastal trade in England

Chris Cumberpatch   Face to face with medieval pottery; some speculations on the significance of face jugs and related vessels in Yorkshire

Philippe Husi   Pottery of the Later Middle Ages from Central Western France

Wolfram Giertz   New pots for an old town. Immigrant potters in Aachen, c.1400-1600

Cole Henley   Patterns generate relationships between people and things: reading the Neolithic pottery decoration of the Outer Hebrides

Gerald Dunning Memorial Lecture

Kenneth Barton   Saintonge Polychrome Pottery and its implications

Session 4 - Pottery and the Consumer

Derek Hall   Whose pot is it anyway?

John Cotter   Strangers on the shore: pottery from an early medieval fishing settlement at Townwall Street, Dover

Lars Pilo   The Pottery from Kaupang, Norway - new evidence from an old site

Jesper Hjermind   The fingerprint of an English potter. Results from Viborg Søndersø 2001- an excavation in layers from 1018 to c.1030

Victoria Bryant   Death and desire: factors effecting the consumption of pottery in medieval Worcestershire (MC28)

Maureen Mellor   Changing rooms: Fixtures, Fittings and Movable Goods (MC28)

Paul Blinkhorn   Production, Exchange and Consumption in the English south-east Midlands and the Thames Valley