Dear Colleagues,

Please find following details of a seminar on borderware, organized by
Surrey Archaeology Curators Group. All archaeologists and curators are
welcome to attend - please bring this to the attention of anyone you think
would be interested.

I apologise to those of you who recieve multiple copies of this
announcement.

Pat

Pat Reynolds
Surrey Museums Development Officer

      SURREY-HAMPSHIRE BORDER WARE: LATEST RESEARCH, NEW DISCOVERIES

       Tutors: Jacqui Pearce and Tony Grey ? Borderware specialists
             London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre
        Mortimer Wheeler House, 46 Eagle Wharf Road, London N1 7ED

                        22 April 2005, 10.00-16.00

Programme

10.00-10.30 Arrival, coffee and introduction by Roy Stephenson

10.30-11.15  Introduction to the Surrey-Hampshire border ware industry: the
main  fabrics  and  forms,  chronology,  production  centres,  markets  and
significance.
Tony Grey and Jacqui Pearce

Coffee and handling session

11.30-12.00  The  Farnborough  Hill Convent excavations, 1968-72: the site,
its kilns and dating.
Tony Grey

12.00-1230  Surrey-Hampshire  border wares in the Museum of London Ceramics
and Glass Collection ? viewing and handling session

12.30-13.00  Farnborough  Hill: fabric, form and function, and developments
in the late medieval/early modern transitional period.
Jacqui Pearce

13.00-14.00 Lunch (included in price)

14.00-14.45   Technology:   manufacturing   and   firing  faults  from  the
Farnborough Hill site. Viewing of examples/handling session.
Tony Grey

Tea

15.00-15.45  Surrey-Hampshire  border  wares  from  London: an overview and
directions for future research.
Jacqui Pearce

15.45-16.00  Questions.    NB: Participants are very welcome to bring their
own examples of borderware for comparison.

Costs:   Individual  members  of  Surrey Archaeological Society/ staff from
voluntary  museums  in South East region £18:      Staff of local authority
museums and others £30.

Cheques  to  be  made  payable  to Surrey County Council and sent to
Claire Morgan,  Assistant  Museums  Development Officer SMCC, 130
Goldsworth Road, Woking,   Surrey    GU21   1ND.   Enquiries   01483
518784:  e-mail  : [log in to unmask]


             Organised by Surrey Archaeological Curators Group
          with support from Surrey Museums Consultative Committee.



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Pat Reynolds
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   "It might look a bit messy now,
                    but just you come back in 500 years time"
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