Medieval Pottery
British
- Wiki page for MPRG's Revised Research Strategy and Agenda project
- MPRG Bibliography online database hosted by the Archaeology Data Service
- Archive of Anglo-Saxon Pottery Stamps
- Reports on pottery from Hampshire
- PotWeb – medieval and later pottery in the Ashmolean, Oxford
- Worcestershire Online Fabric Type Series
- South Yorkshire/North Derbyshire Medieval Ceramics Reference Collection
- Museum of London Ceramics page
- Medieval Pottery Construction – how pots were made
- Two Medieval London-type jugs from Longmarket, Canterbury, by John Cotter
- Medieval Pottery Cistern from Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Medieval Pottery from Excavations at Castle Garth, Newcastle, 1976-1992 Summary
- Medieval pottery at the University of Warwick 'Campus archaeology' site
- Late Medieval and Transitional Pottery from Weybread, Suffolk, by Sue Anderson
- Spoilheap Archaeology – medieval pottery and more!
- Archaeologia Cantiana, including research into the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Sarre, with pot pictures (see bottom of page) and medieval pottery in Dartford (Vol 88)
- Report on a geophysical survey on the Ham Green production site, North Somerset
- Medieval Pottery at Portmahomack, assessment by Derek Hall for the Tarbat Discovery Programme
- Face to face with medieval pottery: some observations on medieval anthropomorphic pottery in north-east England, by Chris Cumberpatch
- Reports from the National Museum of Scotland (including the database of French pottery in Scotland)
Other European
- The Corpus Middeleeuws Aardewerk series on ceramics in the Netherlands and Flanders
- Rhenische Keramik Rhenish ceramics from the C14–19th, including Lower Rhine Earthenware and contemporary ceramics
- Pottery excavated from a Carmelite friary at Esslingen: Part1 | Part2 | Part3
- Italian Maiolica at International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza
Asian
- Thailand Sukhothai-style 14–17th Century (including three pottery images)
- Japanese pottery
Miscellaneous
- Karen Larsdatter's PotteryLinks (part of her impressive collection of links on Medieval and Renaissance Arts and Crafts)
- About Archaeology Ceramics page
- Arts Heaven Types of Art: Ceramics and Pottery
Ceramic Building Material
Post-Medieval Pottery
UK
- The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
- The Transformation of Tradition: the Origins of the Post-medieval Ceramic Tradition in Yorkshire, by Chris Cumberpatch
- Society for Clay Pipe Research
Other European
- Royal Delft present-day factory, but includes a history of Delftware
- De Liebaart – Belgian 'living history' site
USA
- Jamestown – excellent site with pages of information about a variety of European post-medieval pottery
- Illinois State Museum – At home on the fringes of the Prairie 1800–1850: ceramics
- Ceramic firepots – pottery used as incendiary devices, C16th–mid 17th (Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A&M University)
Canada
- Central Trust Site 18th century ceramics – Nova Scotia Museum
- St Mary's University ceramics database – index page to a wide variety of post-medieval pottery types
Australia
Art and antique sites
- ceramique.com – mainly an art site, but with a bookshop which includes some archaeological material. In French, some English.
- The Ceramics Web: big collection of links
- Potfest bookstore
Prehistoric and Roman pottery
- Pottery of native peoples in Canada
- Potsherd – introduction to Roman pottery
Experimental Pottery Firing
- The Northern California Experimental Firing Group build and fire pottery kilns based on archaeological models
- Different Pottery Kilns by Wali Hawes
- The Derbyshire Ware Project
- Experiments in early medieval pottery
Scientific Analysis
- Alan Vince Archaeological Consultancy – chemical and thin section analysis
- Laboratory for Ceramic Research, Lund University
- The Southampton University Ceramics Research Group
Other Pottery and Finds Groups
- Prehistoric Ceramic Research Group
- The Study Group for Roman Pottery
- Arch-pot email group – for discussion of British pottery of all periods
- Finds Research Group AD700–1700
Journals
General Archaeology
- The CBA guide to UK archaeology online
- Archaeology on the Net – European Archaeology
- Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe (ARGE)
- The ArchNet World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology
- National Institute for Research in Preventive Archaeology (INRAP, France)
Medieval Archaeology
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