English Heritage is one of the key partner institutions supporting the Devon & Cornwall type series project, kindly providing curatorial support to access and study their collections of ceramic material from Cornwall. Hosted by Matty Cambridge and Ian Leins, this meeting offered the South West and South Central group the chance to spend the day at the EH archaeological store. Papers from members focussed on ceramic groups from sites in the south west:
Duncan Brown, The pottery assemblage from Launceston Castle
Elle Norrish, The medieval pottery of Totnes
Kate Berlewen, Project update: The fabric type series for medieval and post-medieval pottery from Devon and Cornwall
John Allan & Kate Berlewen, An assemblage of pottery from Hayle Viaduct, Cornwall
Matty Cambridge and Jane Mann, Project Update: Viewing and discussion of the Cleeve Abbey Ridge Tiles
In the afternoon the group were given a behind the scenes tour of the stores by Curator of Collections Ian Leins, followed by an opportunity to see and handle the Cleeve Abbey ridge tiles with Assistant Curator Matty Cambridge. The material from Launceston Castle, a key data set for the Cornwall stage of the Devon & Cornwall project, was also available for handling following a morning paper from Duncan Brown who published the ceramic assemblage in the 2006 Excavations at Launceston Castle, Cornwall monograph.
