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A useful source for British material is:
Currie, C.K. 1993. The Archaeology of the Flowerpot in England and Wales,
circa 1650-1950, Garden History 21, 227-46
Craig Cessford
> I am looking for any information on studies of flower pots. In
> particular, I am trying locate good resources on the history of terra
> cotta flower pots and relationship of size to use. Also I am looking for
> info on greenhouse heating systems. The session at the SHA conference in
> Baltimore last year was very good and I have some great resources from
> the histarch discussion of greenhouses and orangeries a couple of years
> ago, but I am looking more specifically at the mid to late nineteenth
> century and within an institutional context. I am working on a greenhouse
> at the Eastern State Lunatic Asylum in Lexington, Kentucky where I have
> brick foundations, trench features associated with a heating system
> (seems to be for hearth and ash clean-out), and thousands of terra cotta
> flower pot sherds of various sizes. I am looking to relate these
> resources to nineteenth century philosophies of architectural and
> landscape designs for asylums, such as the Kirkbride model and to
> treatment philosophies (I have Susan Piddock's edited volume and diss.).
> Any suggestions for historical references or archaeological studies of
> flower pots and greenhouses would be much appreciated, I am trying make
> sure I am not missing anything.
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>Thanks in advance,
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>Jay
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>M. Jay Stottman
>Staff Archaeologist
>Kentucky Archaeological Survey
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