Documentary Evidence and its Potential for Understanding the Inland Movement of Medieval Pottery

Documentary evidence offers numerous suggestions for the understanding of the movement of pottery. Insights can be gained into pottery distributions by considering, for example, the location of medieval roads, towns, markets and fairs, and by studying manorial and epicopal accounts. As historical documents are open to many different interpretations, the key to understanding the significance of these pottery distributions must come from a close working relationship between archaeologists and historians.