Beyond the seas: Rhenish stoneware from Louisbourg (Nova Scotia)

Summary

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The Louisbourg fortress (Nova Scotia, now Canada) is an exceptional site for the study of ceramics from the first half of the 18th century. Millions of fragments and complete pieces have been documented there during archaeological excavations. In particular, the amount of Rhenish stoneware in Louisbourg, a type little studied until now, is comparatively very small (less than 10,000 fragments), but it offers a very interesting set of pieces of Westerwald Rhine stoneware due to their morphological and decorative variety. We present a first approach to the study of this ceramic from a selection of pieces studied in the fortress museum that respond to the typology of tanquards with the aim of making an interpretation in a social key.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023   •
• 2023 SHA Poster Submissions

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow