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terms of availability, cost and also conservatism. As on most sites of this period in the country, vessel repair and re-use is extremely common, and it raises many questions in terms of both dating and consumption patterns. 100% 90% 80% 70% Industrial Refined Earthenwares Coarse Earthenwares Stonewares Tin-Glazed Earthenware European Porcelain Chinese Porcelain Sherd Count 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% pre 1730 1730-1784 1784-1830 1830-1902 1902-1958 1958-<strong>2002</strong> Figure 8. Changing Proportions of Major Pottery Types As a final look at the ceramics from the site, it is worth conducting a preliminary analysis of the distribution of pottery types between rooms; to avoid as much as possible problems of re-deposition and re-use, only pottery from the occupation and immediate abandonment phases (4-5) of the rooms have been included (Table 5). It shows a very interesting pattern; by far and away the rooms with the finest tablewares are the school room and dormitory – here Chinese export porcelain and tin-glazed earthenwares dominate the assemblages while most of the other rooms – particularly the infirmary, Bishop’s room and Miller’s room have proportionately much more stonewares and coarse earthenwares. The corridor, library and annexe all have very little ceramics, unsurprisingly. 49
Bearing in mind that the rooms on the western side of the site have not been completely excavated, it is nevertheless a potentially interesting pattern and at first glance, suggests that the students were far better served with fine tablewares than the Bishop or Miller! This is undoubtedly a more complex picture than it appears though – in the first instance, particularly in the case of the Bishop´s rooms, so far only one half of a room of a whole suite of rooms have been excavated. Also the vessels from the school rooms and the dormitory may chiefly reflect the personal belongings of students rather than their everyday tableware, as there was a proper refectory (borðstofa) where they would have dined. It will be extremely interesting to examine the assemblage from this room when it is excavated. This preliminary analysis has however shown the potential of examining assemblage composition by room and the information it might yield. Chinese Porcelain European Porcelain Tin-Glazed Earthenware Stoneware Coarse Earthenware Refined Industrial Earthenware Bishops room (15) 3 1 8 9 33 16 Library (55) 1 - 2 2 1 - Millers room (39) 6 4 11 8 15 9 Corridor (30/106) - - 1 - - - Annexe (127) 2 - - - - - Infirmary (100) 5 - 1 20 1 33 Dormitory (80) 43 - 16 9 - 1 School room (81) 45 - 22 15 8 - Table 5. Quantity of main pottery types by room for phases 4-5 (fragment count) Clay Pipes 1 After pottery, the next major ceramic class were the clay smoking pipes; these were most common in phase 4, belonging to the period immediately after the earthquake, though their primary use may have been in the previous phase. Both pipe stems and bowls occurred, and often as large fragments; quite a number were decorated and several were 1 Natascha Mehler provided most of information discussed in this section. 50
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SKÁLHOLT 2002 Framvinduskýrslur/I
Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction .
Page 5 and 6: LIST OF PLATES Plate I. View of the
Page 7 and 8: Between 1954 and 1958, the first pr
Page 9 and 10: structures. Thereafter, excavation
Page 11 and 12: The project is a cooperation betwee
Page 13 and 14: 76 m 75 m 74 m 73 m 72 m 71 m 70 m
Page 15 and 16: is also suggested that a topographi
Page 17 and 18: I I I I I I I V c m S k á l h o l
Page 19 and 20: Þrátt fyrir að gjóskulög frá
Page 21 and 22: productivity. Soil accumulation on
Page 23 and 24: EXCAVATION Excavation occurred at t
Page 25 and 26: The buildings basically consisted o
Page 27 and 28: Room [15] (Bishop´s Inner Chambers
Page 29 and 30: Abandonment of the building is mark
Page 31 and 32: Room [127] (Unknown Annexe; MS) Unm
Page 33 and 34: sporadically used to dump hearth wa
Page 35 and 36: Rector´s chambers, and after 1781,
Page 37 and 38: earthquake and re-location of the s
Page 39 and 40: There is little doubt this feature
Page 41 and 42: much earlier. Curiously though, the
Page 43 and 44: Figure 6. Phasing of School Rooms 8
Page 45 and 46: On the southern side of the haybarn
Page 47 and 48: shelters in the 19 th century seems
Page 49 and 50: 3. FINDS The amount of finds recove
Page 51 and 52: CERAMIC Pottery A rapid assessment
Page 53: glazed earthenwares (faience) were
Page 57 and 58: with incomplete markings: Ger[many]
Page 59 and 60: lown as in the 18 th century exampl
Page 61 and 62: lines. There was also a fine exampl
Page 63 and 64: Other A few rarer metal types were
Page 65 and 66: () which has a flaw running almost
Page 67 and 68: comes fairly close and is a rare si
Page 69 and 70: 4. DISCUSSION THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PO
Page 71 and 72: communities may have introduced new
Page 73 and 74: practices, a general hypothesis tha
Page 75 and 76: 5. APPENDICES UNITS No NoType Group
Page 77 and 78: No NoType GroupNo Description 82 De
Page 79 and 80: No NoType GroupNo Description 203 D
Page 81 and 82: FINDS FindsNo UnitNo BoxNo Object M
Page 83 and 84: FindsNo UnitNo BoxNo Object Materia
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6. REFERENCES Adderley, W.P., Simps
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Horsley, T., (1999). ‘A prelimina
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