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A Group of English and Imported Medieval Pottery from Lesnes Abbey, Kent; and the Trade in Early Hispano-Moresque Pottery to England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

G. C. Dunning
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The group of medieval pottery described in this paper was found at Lesnes Abbey in June 1959, when the smaller of two stone-lined pits added against the west end of the Reredorter was cleared. The pit measured 8 ft. by 5 ft. internally, and was about 10 ft. deep. The greater part of the filling, about 7 ft. in depth, consisted of chalk and stone rubble, fragments of sandy mortar, a few pieces of worked stone, and broken roofing tiles. Below this filling was a layer of dark soil, about 2 ft. in depth, at the bottom of the pit. All the pottery was found in the layer of dark soil; there is thus no doubt that it is contemporary, and was absolutely sealed by several feet of building debris. I am indebted to the officers of the Historic Buildings Section of the London County Council for these details, and for permission to examine the pottery and prepare this report for publication.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 41 , Issue 1-2 , April 1961 , pp. 1 - 12
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1961

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page 3 note 4 Arch. Cant, lxxii, 35, fig. 6, 18–19.

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page 3 note 7 Arch. Cant, lxxii, 35, fig. 6, 20–22.

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page 5 note 1 A full account of polychrome ware and of the other types of French pottery exported to Britain, together with inventories, is being prepared for publication in the near future.

page 5 note 2 Information from Mr. C. A. R. Radford.

page 5 note 3 Arch. lxxxiii, 112.

page 5 note 4 Information from Mr. A. J. Taylor,

page 5 note 5 Arch. Cambrensis, 1935, p. 141.

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page 9 note 2 The types are conveniently compared in Frothingham, op. cit., figs. 51–52 and in Hispano-Moresque Pottery (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1957), pls. 2–3. For colour illustrations of drug-jars see González Martí, Cerámica del Levante español (1944), passim, especially pi. xii.

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page 10 note 4 Pottery from the Near East did occasionally reach north-west Europe in medieval times. The rim and neck of a jar of thirteenth-century Rakka ware from North Syria, painted with a band of mock inscription in black under a pale turquoise blue glaze, was found at Grosmont Castle, Monmouthshire. Archaeologia Camirensis, 1932, p. 193. Another import of this date from the same source is a small drug-jar from excavations in Lund. Kulturen. En Arsbok (1948), p. 32.