Brief Bibliography: medieval pottery construction


Bryant, G.F., 1973, 'Experimental Romano-British kiln firings' in A.P. Detsicas, Current
Research in Romano-British Coarse Pottery, C.B.A. Res. Report 10, 1949-160.

Coleman-Smith, R. and Pearson, T., 1988. Excavations in the Donyatt Potteries, Phillimore, Chicester

Dawson,D. and Kent,O. 1999, 'Reduction fired low temperature ceramics', Post-Medieval
Archaeology 33, 164-178.
    See also: Bulletin of the Experimental Firing Group 1983-1988; and EFG website

Grimshaw, R.W. 1971, The Chemistry and Physics of Clays and Allied Ceramic Materials, 4th ed. revised, Ernest Benn, London.

Hamer, F. and Hamer,J. 1991, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 3rd ed. Black, London

McCarthy, M.R.and Brooks, C.M. 1988, Medieval Pottery in Britain AD900-1600, Leicester.

Manby, T.G. 1965. 'Medieval pottery kilns at Upper Heaton, West Yorkshire' Archaeol. J. 121, 70-110.

Mays,P., 1961 'The firing of a pottery kiln of a Romano-British type at Boston, Lincs.', Archhaeometry, 4, 4-17;
    1962, 'The firing of a second pottery kiln of Romano-British type at Boston, Lincolnshire'
Archaeometry, 4, 80-92

Mays, P. and Scott,K . 1984, Pottery Kilns at Chilvers Coton, Nuneaton, Soc. for Medieval
Archaeology Monograph Series 10.

Miller, P and Stephenson, R.  1999  'A 14th-century pottery site in Kingston upon Thames,
Surrey', Molas Arch. Studies Series I, London.

Moorhouse, S. 1981, 'The medieval pottery industry and its markets' in D.W. Crossley (ed) Medieval Industry, CBA  Research Report 40, 96-125.

Musty, J.W.G., 1974, 'Medieval pottery kilns'; in V.I. Everson, H. Hodges and J.G.Hunt (eds), Medieval Pottery from Excavations, 41-66.

Newell, R.W. 1994 'Thumbed and sagging bases on English medieval jugs: a potter's view', Medieval Ceramics 18, 51-58;
    1995 'Some notes on 'splashed glazes'', Medieval Ceramics 19, 77-88;
    1998-99, 'Reduction and oxidation in English medieval kiln practice', Medieval Ceramics,
22-23, 124-134;
    1998-99, 'Left-leaning handles', Medieval Ceramics, 22-23, 153-154.

Noble, J.W. 1966, The Techniques of Painted Attic Pottery, Thames and Hudson, London.

Orton, C.R., 1982, 'A late medieval/transitional pottery kiln from Cheam, Surrey'  Surrey Arch. Collect. 73, 49-92;
    1991, 'Parkside revisited; a second look at the first Cheam kiln', London Archaeologist 6,
322-327.

Pearce, J.E., Vince,A.G. and Jenner. M.A., 1985, A Dated Type-series of London Medieval Pottery Part 2: London-type Ware, London Middlesex Archaeol. Soc. Spec. Paper 6.

Pearce, J.E. and Vince, A. 1988, A Dated Type-series of London Medieval Pottery. part 4: Surrey Whitewares, London Middlesex Archaeol Soc. Spec. Paper 10.

Pearce, J.E., 1984, 'Getting a handle on medieval pottery' London Archaeol. 5, 17-23

Rackham, B, 1972, Medieval English Pottery, 2nd ed. London.

Rado, P. 1988, An Introduction to the Technology of Pottery, 2nd ed., Institute of Ceramics Textbook Series, Oxford.

Rhodes, D. 1957, Clay and Glazes for the Potter, Pitman and Sons, London.

Rice, P. M., 1987, Pottery Analysis, a Sourcebook, Univ. of Chicago Press.

Rye, O.S., 1977, Pottery Technology: Principles and Reconstruction, Manuals on Archaeology 4, Taraxacum, Washington.

Shepard, A.D., Ceramics for the Archaeologist, Carnegie Institutions, Washington.

Swan, V.G. 1984, The Pottery Kilns of Roman Britain,  HMSO, London


Acknowledgements: 

The Museum of London
The British Museum
The Ashmolean Museum
The Salisbuy and South Wiltshire Museum