Ewenny Pottery information

Ewenny Pottery, founded in 1610 in the village of Ewenny, is the oldest working pottery in Wales. The village of Ewenny is sited above all of the natural...

Ewenny (Welsh: Ewenni) is a village and community (parish) on the River Ewenny in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Over the years the village has grown into...

several notable potteries, one of the first important sites being the Ewenny Pottery in Bridgend, which began producing earthenware in the 17th century....

1962, Tom also took over the Claypits Pottery at Ewenny, nearby to the Ewenny Pottery. He renamed it Vale Pottery, after the Vale of Glamorgan, it later...

appreciation to their work. Horace W Elliot, an English gallerist, visited the Ewenny Pottery (which dated back to the 17th century) in 1885, to both find local pieces...

holds displays of traditional crafts, with a working blacksmith forge, a pottery, a weaver, a miller, and a clog maker. It also includes two working water...

of course. Horace W. Elliot, an English gallery owner, visited the Ewenny Pottery (which dated back to the 17th century) in 1885, to both find local pieces...

very abundant. The rivers of the Vale are relatively small and include the Ewenny, Ogmore, Ely and Thaw. They hold game fish such as brown trout, grayling...

restoration work, as shown by the date of the oak screen and pulpit. Ewenny Pottery started. Approximate date of Kennixton Farmhouse, now located at St...

clay beds, for ease of resource gathering. Buckley and Ewenny became leading areas of pottery production in Wales during the 17th and 18th centuries;...

of the south cloister range. An archaeological dig in 1967 revealed a pottery kiln built into the west wall, and from 1740 the main body of the building...

before being moved into the burial chamber. Neolithic and Bell-Beaker style pottery has also been found, this showed that the burial chamber tomb was probably...

Ey. This building has not survived, but archaeologists have found some pottery and foundations from this period on the abbey site. Between 1042 and 1052...

Abbey in 1147. In the Vale a Benedictine monastery was founded in 1141, Ewenny Priory, a community under the patronage of St. Peter's Gloucester. The building...

"poorly-recorded". A report noted in 1976 that "Human remains and coarse pottery were found in 1875 in the debris thrown out from the interior, which partly...

the site. In 1955 Ralegh Radford's excavations uncovered Romano-British pottery at the west end of the cloister. The abbey was founded by Britons and dates...

Services. This focused on the northern edge of the former island. As well as pottery, animal bone and roofing material, a large deposit of 13th and 14th century...

high-status metalwork and jewellery. There were also glass items and imported pottery dating from the sub-Roman period of between the 5th and 7th centuries....

settlements in the second and third centuries, substantiated by Roman pottery, shells and tiles that were discovered when a new pipeline was laid through...

discovered human remains, Mesolithic and Neolithic flintwork and Neolithic pottery. The main cave of Goldsland is located at 51°26′21″N 3°17′00″W / 51.439062°N...

evidence. as are earthworks, traces of walling, a bank and a ditch. Pieces of pottery have been found. According to the 18th-century historian of ill-repute...

east across Flemingston Moor; excavations on the moor have unearthed some pottery dated to the 12th-13th centuries. The Nant y Stepsau also flows to the...