Category: North-West Region

Manchester Cathedral

8 June 2024

A recent review of archaeological assemblages curated by Manchester Cathedral provided an opportunity to get the group together again at the Manchester Cathedral Visitor Centre. In 1997 excavations at the Hanging Ditch in Manchester produced one of the city’s few medieval finds assemblages including a relatively large assemblage of pottery. An assessment report written at the time highlighted the lack of comparative assemblages and it was not possible at the time to identify production sources for much of the pottery. An aim of the meeting was to re-examine the assemblage and see if work over the last 27 years could revise the conclusions of the assessment. After much enjoyable and informative discussion, it was decided that the assessment report still stood. It is hoped to follow up this meeting with an examination of pottery from medieval kiln sites in Cheshire.