UPDATED - Forthcoming conferences:

- THINGS MEDIEVAL: A conference in tribute to Alan Vince

To be held at the Museum of London, on the 27th February 2010. Click here for conference flyer (pdf 75kb)


- Call for papers for the next MPRG Annual Conference, Perth, Scotland, 14th to 16th June 2010:

"DATING AND DEPOSITS: ceramic chronology and site information".

UPDATED - Book now for good room rates

Click here for more information (pdf 70kb) or go to the Conferences page.

UPDATED - Only a few places left book soon! Continued Professional Training for Ceramic Archaeologists

New dates are now available for the previously postponed MPRG training course; Medieval Imported Pottery

The course will run on the following dates at the University of Southampton:

25th - 26th January 2010
27th - 28th January 2010

For full details on the courses please click here (pdf 37.2kb)

To book please download the booking form here (pdf 53.7kb)

The London Region MPRG Meeting - 18th April 2009

The London region medieval pottery research group will be meeting at The Surrey History Centre, Woking on the 18th April, 2009 at 10.30 am. The theme of the day will be Surrey early medieval pottery, c. 400-1200.

Please bring along some pottery and if you would like to give a short paper related to the theme of the day then please contact Chris Jarrett: editor2@medievalpottery.org.uk.

SCIENCE AND CERAMICS - Recent developments in analysis and interpretation

Saturday 6th of June 2009
A one-day meeting of the Medieval Pottery Research Group at the British Geological Survey, Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham

The cost for the conference fee is £40, concessions £30. Lunch is included.

Directions to the venue are available here:
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/contacts/sites/keyworth/kwhome.html

For the full programme and booking form click here(PDF 57.6kb).

MPRG Occasional Paper 3 - AVAILABLE NOW

The Harlow Pottery Industries - Wally Davey and Helen Walker with contributions by Richard Bartlett, Mike Hughes and Alan Vince

Click here for full details and ordering information.

UPDATED: Continued Professional Training for Ceramic Archaeologists

The Medieval Pottery Research Group with funding from English Heritage is running a series of training courses in November 2008 and February, May and September 2009. The courses are designed to provide career development for archaeological ceramicists who work on a freelance basis or within commercial archaeological units or in the university or museum sector. Whilst the courses are intended to be of particular value to those involved in the study of post-Roman ceramics they will also be of value to those involved in the study of prehistoric and Roman pottery.

February Dates have been postponed, see updated documents below.

Dates for September 2009 now confirmed - 21st-22nd and 23rd-24th.

For full details on the courses please click here (pdf 67.1kb)

To book please download the booking form here (pdf 57.2kb)

Continued Professional Training for Ceramic Archaeologists

The Medieval Pottery Research Group with funding from English Heritage is running a series of training courses in November 2008 and February, May and September 2009. The courses are designed to provide career development for archaeological ceramicists who work on a freelance basis or within commercial archaeological units or in the university or museum sector. Whilst the courses are intended to be of particular value to those involved in the study of post-Roman ceramics they will also be of value to those involved in the study of prehistoric and Roman pottery.

Dates for September 2009 now confirmed - 21st-22nd and 23rd-24th.

For full details on the courses please click here (pdf 67.1kb)

To book please download the booking form here (pdf 57.2kb)