Medieval Vessels of Other Materials: A Non Ceramic View

Large, closely dated assemblages of medieval finds from London, which include well-preserved fragments of wood, glass and metal vessels, have provided an opportunity to gauge for the first time from excavated evidence how the availability and use of these different materials, and of others less common, may have related to each other in the capital over a period of some 300 years. A summary table of these datable finds, given below., can be set beside figures from suitable assemblages elsewhere to try to define similarities or differences in trends suggested. It may eventually be possible to pinpoint regional or national regularities in the late medieval consumption of vessels made of the various materials.