I imagine their are not great differences in material culture of 
immigrants and locals. Immigrants in England are likely to have used 
locally produced consumer goods and we rarely get good enough 
archaeology to see how they might have differently manipulated material 
culture which is probably the way forward.  I think one of the glass 
making sites associated with Lorrainer immigrants produced  a pot which 
has been interpreted as  a possible heirloom- but I forget which. I 
think it was in David Gaimster's recent paper in SPMA on Werra ware. In 
many towns it is very difficult to tie down individual households with 
documents and one has major problem with sub-tenanting. The unpublished 
excavations of the Jewish quarter in Amsterdam are exceptional. Also as 
Geoff notes much of our urban archaeology is very mixed up when you 
might have occupation from the 10th century to modern. I am sure  we 
will produce more as more excavation is done in suburbs than  
Roman/medieval town cores. However, whether the necessary documentary 
research will be done is increasingly unlikely due to pressures of 
competitive tendering. As for rural sites there has been very little 
work on this aspect in Europe with exception of Sweden and Mediterranean 
surveys never mind the few Huguenot settlements. In France there are 
plenty of surviving protestant churches especially in areas like 
Saintonge and some recording work has been done on them as standing 
buildings. There has been and is a lot of historical research - and 
there is a Huguenot society in Uk which has published a lot of primary 
documents eg church registers.   http://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk
Chris King who did his PhD on Norwich housing  has just got a 3 year 
fellowship to study the Dutch and their housing UK at Leicester University

paul

Boyer, Jeffrey, DCA wrote:
> This is really fascinating. My father's ancestors, on both sides, were Huguenots (note my surname, which I inherited from my father's father; my father's mother's family were Witts). A close friend, whose ancestry is also Huguenot, is writing a series of historical novels on the Huguenot experience based on her family. I have been sharing your posts with her in hopes that she can obtain information on material culture for her writing.
> I have the impression that more is known archaeologically about Huguenots from this side of the pond than from the other. Yes, Geoff and Paul? Is this because, as Geoff suggests, immigrants can be difficult to trace materially in city settings?
> In turn, is that because of the processes and results of acculturation, or because of existing material similarities?
> Is it because groups like the Huguenots were not necessarily materially distinct from their Catholic neighbors in France except at their places of worship? How about their neighbors in low-country settings or in England? I note that Paul mentions that they may be difficult to identify in English settings because of the high rate of import of Dutch ceramics.
> Were Huguenots prone to setting themselves apart in more far-flung diasporic situations like the Americas (I had no idea there was a colony in Brazil, Rich)?
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> Next question for all: how about written records of the Huguenot diaspora and experience? Diaries? Wills, estate, or probate documents? Shipping records or manifests? Biographies or (even better) autobiographies? Town planning (someone earlier mentioned that, I think)? Observations by neighbors?
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