The Harlow Pottery Industries

摘要

This, the third of the Occasional Papers published by the Medieval Pottery Research Group, examines the history and archaeology of the pottery industry in Harlow, on the western edge of Essex, that was in production from the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries. The Medieval Pottery Research Group was established in 1975 to bring together interested parties to investigate ceramics in Great Britain from the Roman period to the sixteenth century. Its area of research subsequently expanded to include pottery of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond, as well as post-Roman ceramic building materials. The first two Occasional Papers explored and defined typologies, establishing grammar and syntax for ceramic descriptions, both physical (paste and glaze) and morphological (vessel form). These standards are applied to the Harlow material so that a consistent set of traits and characteristics is recorded for the ceramic group under discussion.