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Author Archives: Oliver Kent
SMASHED IN THE CELLAR: The Surgeon/Apothecary
Edward Spencer Surgeon/Apothecary Following on from my previous post, a little about the man whose bankruptcy precipitated the disposal of a huge quantity of household goods in the back garden of 8 Cathedral Green, Wells in about 1820. Amongst the … Continue reading
SMASHED IN THE CELLAR: Life in 18th-century Wells, Somerset
Smashed in The Cellar, Wells and Mendip Museum in Somerset. 16 February – 12 April 2024 The exhibition is built around the remarkable ‘hoard’ of ceramics, glass and other artefacts found dumped in a backfilled cellar and a cess-pit to … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th century, Archaeology, art, ceramics, earthenware, history, porcelain, pottery, social history, travel
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Wedgwood, Waterlilies and Westbury-on-Trym (Bristol)
Bristol is rightly well-known for its pottery industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bristol was the first home of the delftware industry after London and the collection in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery is spectacular. By the middle of … Continue reading
A US Coastguardsman at the RWA, Bristol
In July 2019 I wrote about the wartime American Red Cross Club at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol. The club was set up in 1943 to entertain the steadily increasing numbers of US service personal stationed in … Continue reading
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China Comes to Wells
Chinese Export Porcelain from Archaeological Excavations at Wells and Mendip Museum When Wells and Mendip Museum in Wells, Somerset decided to build an extension to the rear of their building on Cathedral Green in the early 1990s they were expecting … Continue reading
Published: Late Medieval Pottery Kilns at Newport… + Interpretation of Pottery Production Sites
Our book is out! We are very pleased to be able to show it off. It comes in two sections – Part 1 is the archaeological report on the late-Medieval Pottery Kilns at Newport, Pembrokeshire. The site consists of the … Continue reading
40 Years Since the Bickley Ceramics Project Began
Something 2020 positive for once! In 2021 it will be 40 years since we began making pots and building kilns at Bickley! The summer of 2020 would have seen the 40th event. For the people who took part in the … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Bickley Ceramics Project, Bonfire Firing, bottle kiln, Experimental Archaeology, International Ceramics Festival, Kilns and Kiln-building, Medieval pottery, Open firing, Post-Medieval Archaeology, Studio Ceramics, Winchcombe Pottery
Tagged archaeological ceramics, Bickley Project, earthenware, experimental firing, experimental kiln, historic ceramics, ICF, kiln building, medieval kiln, Medieval Pottery Research Group, Plimoth Patuxet, Plimoth Plantation, updraught kiln, Winchcombe Pottery
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Clay and Fire 