Pottery, the Port and the populace: The Imported Pottery of London 1300-1600 (Part 1)

This paper seeks to set the imported pottery of London -within a socio-economic context. It presents a chronological overview of the different wares against a background of the evolving topography and trade of the port of London and tee demographic growth of the city, in an attempt to understand better the means by which different wares reached London and by whom they may have been used. The survey is presented in two parts, the first of which here comprises j general introduction and an overview of the ceramic trends to 1480.