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Archaeology - Borderware

 

The topic of Borderware has become a major topic, so this page has been reorganised to become the index for the subject. Unless your contribution is very short, please make links to your contribution from this page. Thanks, Richard Johnston, wikimaster Click here to contact Richard Johnston

 

Introduction and Overview

Why is Borderware so important?

The Blackwater Valley Potteries by Don Ridgers

SURREY HEATH & THE BORDERWARE INDUSTRY By Richard Shegog

Sources of the Potter's Clay By Peter Tipton

Pottery Parishes

 

Potters' Biographies

John Marner alias Rogers, died 1580, Glover, Farnham

Richard Wright, died 1582, Potter, Farnborough

Richard Dee, died 1593, Potter, Lambeth

Robert Wright, died 1596, Potter, Cove

Herman Reynolds, died 1609, Potter, Farnborough

Henry Pullen, died 1616, Potter, Farnborough

John Durgate, died 1622, Potter, Cove

John Barum, died 1632, Cupmaker, Yateley

Robert Hall, died 1633, Potter, Cove

Thomas Reynolds, died 1636, Cove

John Milkton, died 1638, Potter, Farnborough

Richard Edsall, died 1641, Potter, Cove

Richard Taylor, died 1647, Potter, Cove

John Rogers alias Marner, died 1648, Farnborough

John Cantrill, died 1651, Frimley

Richard Trigg, died 1656, Potter, Hawley

 

Other Primary Sources

Wills, Inventories & Probate Accounts

Parish Registers

Taxation Records before 1688

Manorial Records

 

 

Borderware Notes and Queries

 

QB1 (was Q7). Documentary references to potters and potteries on the Hampshire/Surrey borders

 

I am preparing for publication the 1968-72 excavations at Farnborough Hill, carried out by Felix Holling. The project is now in its final stages and I am pursuing documentary references to potting in the Blackwater Valley. Obviously, Elizabeth Lewis‘ excellent 1991 paper has been most helpful. I wondered whether further work has been carried out as part of the Yateley History Project that might be relevant, particularly to Farnborough and Cove, and particularly relating to the 16th century, as well as the 17th century. I understand that some experimental work was carried out on clays from the Bracklesham Beds by Don Ridgers. Is it possible to find out more about these and to include references to them in the Farnborough Hill publication? I understand that there is also a reasonably up-to-date list of sites with finds or references to potting (compiled by Don Ridgers again) and again wondered whether it would be possible to access and refer to this?

Jacqui Pearce, Specialist in medieval and later pottery, and clay tobacco pipes

Museum of London Specialist Services

 

A1: Don Ridgers' Lecture Notes

A2: German Potters in Hampshire

A3: List of Farnborough Wills in HRO to 1620

 

QB2 (was Q8). Borderware distribution from 1500 to 1700

In his excellent article on Borderware on this website, Richard Shegog poses some questions about Borderware, which remain unanswered. A further unknown is how the market for Borderware was organised in the period 1500 to 1700, and who organised it. Later, in the 19th century, the William Smith 'biography' leads to the conclusion that the potters themselves found their own buyers and arranged transport to market. At the peak of its importance when Borderware supplied half the London market, it is possible that other middlemen were involved in the distribution process. Richard Johnston raises this question again in a recent answer to the previous question.

Peter Tipton

 

A1. Borderware Distribution

A2. Local Merchants & Gentry

 

QB3 (was Q9). John Smith, Potter of Frimley

In Richard Shegog’s article on the Borderware Industry, under the heading ‘A Potter’s biography’ he mentions John Smith, the son of William Smith and the likelihood of him being the John Smith, Potter of Frimley. Is this true?

 

A1. John Smith

 

QB4 (was Q10). 16th century connections with London potters

Something dramatic happens to the Farnborough potteries in the mid to late 16th century and I think we have German and London influence very clearly. Whether or not potters from London moved into the (Border Ware production) area is another question. Is it possible that there may be some records that will throw light on this?

Jacqui Pearce, Specialist in medieval and later pottery, and clay tobacco pipes, Museum of London Specialist Services

 

A1: A Lambeth Potter with land in Farnborough

 

QB5 What is the difference between a potter and a cupmaker?

Most of the people associated with the borderware trade are called potters but John Barum (and perhaps William Geale of Yateley and Richard White of Pirbright) is described as a cupmaker. Is cupmaker a description of a pottery merchant? Or describe someone doing a particular part of the process (such as adding handles)? Or did cup manufacture involve a different manufacturing process from wheel made pots, using moulding or pressing methods of some sort? Unlike throwing pots, such methods can use semi-skilled or unskilled child labour. Moulding methods might need wooden patterns, and probably used plaster for moulds. But before speculating further, what do the cups themselves reveal about their method of manufacture? RHJ 8.9.2006

 

QB6 Cove Potteries and Clay Pits

Arthur Lunn's book Our Hampshire Cove mentions Hill House Pottery in Cove (page 9), with some pictures of pottery on pages 14 and 15. Were there any other potteries in Cove around 1900? Who was working them when they closed? Mr Lunn also mentions the clay-pits on Cove Common. I assume all these yielded red clay and were used up for making earthenware, bricks and tiles. The name Claycart Bridge (page 61) is also intriguing me. Was this the name of a bridge over the Basingstoke Canal? If it was then it implies that clay carts were still moving from Farnham to Cove, and perhaps Farnborough, after the construction of the canal. PJT Nov 2006

 

A1: Reply from Arthur E Lunn

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