La producción cerámica en la Baja Edad Mediael alfar de la calle Hospital Viejo de Logroño (La Rioja)

Abstract

Preventive archaeological work carried out in 2009 between streets Hospital Viejo and La Brava, in what was a medieval suburb of the city, revealed the existence of a pottery facility long career and a segment city wall , dated by written sources in the early sixteenth century , which provided a date ante quem the underlying potteries . During the excavation could be identified up to three overlapping bakeries in operation during the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and a bulky set of ceramic, metal , bone and lithic materials recovered. All indications are that the workshops were carried out by Islamic potters, being abandoned after the pragmatic against the Mudejar community of 1502. The work involved the systematic management of a bulky set of productions of common pottery, glazed, majolica and lustreware, identifying thirty four basic forms and multiple variants, of table, kitchen, pantry and auxiliary elements. Your dating from the results of the stratigraphic sequence of the site allows us to offer very tight timelines start and end of productions, making them tools dating contexts and cultural identification in future archaeological work.