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CONSPICUOUS LIQUID CONSUMPTION

By Carole Wheeler   

• The Site
  
  
• How was the site dug?
  
  
• Aims and methodology of this re-assessment
  
  
• What do the historical documents record about this site?
  
  
• How have the well assemblages been analysed?
  
  
• What the data tells us:
  
  
  • The total assemblage
    
    
  • The late 12^th to mid-13^th centuries
    
    
  • The late 13^th to early 14^th centuries
    
    
• Did size matter?
  
  
• What has this re-assessment told us about the Oxford society of these extra-mural tenements

• Methods of Calculating the Capacity of Pottery Vessels
  
  
• Bibliography

Acknowledgements

This student study was undertaken under the direction of Maureen Mellor, then Project Manager of PotWeb. Grateful thanks go to her for her continued interest and help with the final drafting. Thanks are due also to Professor Clive Orton for his helpful comments on the methodology for calculating vessel capacity, and to Dr. Jonathan Moffett of the Ashmolean and Dr. Laurie Loh of PotWeb for putting the article into a web-format.