Middle Meuse Valley Ceramics of Huy-Type: A Preliminary Analysis

This paper focuses on a sequence of domestic pottery excavated at the Place St Severin site in Huy, Belgium. Macroscopic examination of selected context groups spanning the 8th to 11th centuries assisted in the identification of a predominant group of wares, which share diagnostic features with pottery found in production contexts in Huy. This cluster of presumed local wares is named Huy-type wares and classified with regard to the main fabric types represented. The wide repertoire of Carolingian Huy-type wares is indicated, while their gradual development from the Middle Meuse valley and perhaps in Stamford, Lincolnshire, are briefly discussed with special reference to late-Carolingian red-painted and early glazed ware.