Changing Rooms. Fixtures, Fittings and Movable Goods in European Lifestyles

This paper, delivered at MPRG’s conference in Winchester 2004, rapidly surveys the use of the clay industries that may have impacted on the manipulation of private and public space in western Europe. Did these changing rooms influence potters and the social context of pottery utilisation? The paper concludes that assemblages, with people at their core, must embrace all movable goods to revisit some of the earlier excavations of castles, palaces and monastic institutions and using modern methodology explain the differences. The results need to be presented in a more accessible manner.