Experimental Archaeology

• Experimental Pottery Kilns (including the amazing underwater clamp-kiln, or "never dig a kiln in a water meadow")
• The Northern California Experimental Firing Group build and fire pottery kilns based on archaeological models
• The Derbyshire Ware Project an experimental archaeology programme that constructs and fires a replica Romano-British Derbyshire Ware pottery kiln in order to recreate Derbyshire Ware pottery
• The Logbook the international publication for woodfirers and those interested in woodfiring and wood-fired ceramics
• The Bickley Kiln project, as found in selected papers from the original Leicester University Experimental Firing Group, which provided a unique forum throughout the 1980s where methods for making, decorating and, especially, firing pottery could not only be discussed and debated but could also be tested practically
• Buster Farm (UK) Clamp Kiln Experimental Firing
• An experimental kiln of Roman-British type used by potter Bill Crumbleholme attempting to replicate "Celtic" ware
• Wikipedia on Experimental Archaeology.

Scientific Analysis

• Alan Vince Archaeological Consultancy chemical and thin section analysis
• Laboratory for Ceramic Research, Lund University
• The Clay Technology Lab, Stanford University

Kiln Sites

• Poggio Colla Etruscan kiln details of excavation

Medieval Pottery

British

• Worcestershire Online Fabric Type Series
• Two Medieval London-type jugs from Longmarket, Canterbury, by John Cotter
• Anglo-Saxon and Viking Crafts - Pottery by Regia Anglorum living history group
• Spoilheap Archaeology medieval pottery and more!
• Archaeologia Cantiana, including research into the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Sarre, with pot pictures (see bottom of page)

Other European

• The Corpus Middeleeuws Aardewerk series on ceramics in the Netherlands and Flanders (in English and Dutch)
• Pottery excavated from a Carmelite friary at Esslingen: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
• Medieval Inkpot from Beauvaisis region

Asian

• Thailand Sukhothai-style 14-17th Century (including three pottery images)

Miscellaneous

• About Archaeology Ceramics page

Post-Medieval Pottery

UK

• Stoke-on-Trent - general site, including listings of all potteries in the area

USA

• Jamestown - excellent site with pages of information about a variety of European post-medieval pottery
• Illinois State Museum at home on the fringes of the Prairie 1800-1850: ceramics
• Ceramic firepots pottery used as incendiary devices, 16th-mid 17th centuries (Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A&M University)

Canada

• Central Trust Site 18th century ceramics Nova Scotia Museum

Prehistoric and Roman pottery

• Potsherd - introduction to Roman pottery
• Origins of the potter's wheel in Ancient Egypt plus a few tomb drawings of the first kilns

Other Pottery and Finds Groups

• Arch-pot email group — for discussion of British pottery of all periods
• Finds Research Group AD700-1700

Ceramic Building Material

• Museum of Medieval and Encaustic Tile
• British Brick Society
• Museum of Medieval Tiles — Historic Tile Company
• Medieval Tile Gallery
• Tiles on the Web

General Archaeology

• The CBA guide to UK archaeology online