The 27th Gerald Dunning Memorial Lecture: The Isle Of Man, Central or Marginal in the Ceramic History of these Islands? A Case Study

After a short introduction that reviews Gerald Dunning’s relationship with the Isle of Man, the paper presents five ceramic assemblages from the Island ranging in date from the 13th through to the early 20th century. Two groups from excavations in Peel Castle and one from Rushen Abbey are considered, along with a collection from a 19th- century shipwreck and a watching brief on an early 20th-century episcopal rubbish tip. They are each considered against contemporary evidence for differing types of marginality: political, constitutional, socio