Study of the Merovingian Production Centre at Maastricht-Wyck

The Merovingian pottery workshop that is the subject of this paper was discovered in 1991 and appears to date to the 6th or 7th centuries AD. It was discovered in the quarter of Maastricht-Wyck on the west side of the river, on the site of a 19th-century ceramics factory. The technology of the kilns, the nature of the fabrics and vessel typology are all considered in this paper. This piece of work marks the start of a thesis on Merovingian ceramics in the Mosan valley.