Welcome to www.prehistoricpot.co.uk. Emily Edwards is a freelance prehistoric pottery specialist offering recording, analysis and interpretation advice. As a heritage consultant, her professional experience ranges from assistance with Heritage Environment Records, historic building work and post excavation work to archaeological desk top assessments, Conservation Area management Plans, Conservation Area Appraisals and Environmental Impact Assessments. Emily Edwards MA
Emily has worked on some of the country's most important prehistoric pottery assemblages, including Yarnton (Oxfordshire) and has examined pottery from high profile sites, such as the prehistoric pottery found during the excavations of the Rotherwas Ribbon. She has taken part in large scale projects where the prehistoric pottery has been recovered from sites spread over a whole county (the Channel Tunnel Rail Link) and in Heritage Lottery projects where members of the public have learned the priniples of pottery analysis and helped to produce the report (Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire).
Pottery is often the key to understanding any prehistoric site and provides a direct link to those people who made it, used it and deposited it. Not only does it date sites and tell us that people used pottery in order to prepare and consume food and drink, it helps us to understand their aesthetic sensibilities, their relationships with the environment, national and international trade networks and the complexities of prehistoric communities. Prehistoric pottery is often fragile, poorly fired and in need of special handling from excavation through to permanent storage. Specialist skills and experience are essential in order that your assemblage be properly understood and reports, whether brief or detailed, should always be accurate and of high quality.
Honorary Research Associate with the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham
Kinver, West Midlands.