The Earliest Dated Finds of Pottery in Ribe

This paper describes the earliest dated sherds of glazed pottery found in Ribe. Probably all the 43 sherds are of foreign origin, Andenne, Northern France and maybe also Flanders. The exact datings by dendrochronology confirm that some glazed pottery was imported to Ribe in the second part of the 12th century (c. 1150; after 1144 but before 1180; between 1180 and c. 1225). These imports may have led to a later, local production of glazed pottery in South Scandinavia. The datings from Ribe correspond with new results from Ltibeck and confirm that the dating of glazed pottery in Denmark should not always be restricted to the standard dating of highly-decorated pottery.