The MLPRG Annual Conference, 26th September 2026

Charles Grey Room, Colchester Castle, Colchester

We look forward to welcoming you to the MLPRG annual conference, this year to be held in the beautiful Colchester Castle. The theme of this year’s conference is recent ceramic research, with a particular emphasis on the early medieval period (c AD500–1000).

General admission: £40, includes refreshments but not lunch, please bring your own
Speakers ticket: please only book this if you are a confirmed Speaker at this event (£0.00)

The conference will conclude with a talk by the Senior Curator, who will also lead us on a tour.

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Description

DRAFT PROGRAMME

10.00 am	Doors opens for registration
10.15 am	Welcome and house keeping
10.20 am	Sue Anderson – Recent work on Early Anglo-Saxon pottery in East Anglia
10.50 am	Stephanie Ratkai – Where cultures collide? Anglo-Saxon finds from Baginton, Warwickshire.
11.20 am	COFFEE BREAK (provided)
11.40 am	Siobhán Scully – Ceramics in a (Mostly) Aceramic World: Early Medieval Pottery in Ireland and the Early Medieval People and Things Project
12.10 pm	Clare McCutcheon – The Crowland Bowl
12.30 pm	MPRG AGM
12.50 pm	LUNCH (not provided, please bring your own or shops nearby)
14.00 pm	Diana C. Briscoe – Archive of Anglian & Saxon Pottery Stamps (AASPS), ‘Stamped Early Medieval Pottery from the Mercian Region: a reconsideration’
14.30 pm	Arno Verhoeven – Early and high medieval pottery production between dispersal and concentration
15.00 pm	COFFEE BREAK (provided)
15.20 pm	Short paper
15.35 pm	Siddhant Sarkar – Village, Manor and Castle: Culinary practices across Norman Conquest of Medieval Adur Valley communities
16.05 pm	Discussion
16.30 pm	Short talk/Tour Of the Museum with Senior Curator Ben Paites