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Wednesday (22.04.)

16.00 – Guided archaeological town walk through Enkhuizen, departing from the 17th century city hall (Breedstraat 53, Enkhuizen)

17.30 – Welcoming drink, location to be decided

Thursday (23.04.)

8.30–9.00 Registration

9.00–9.15 Welcome words

1st session

01: 9.15–10.00 – Aleike van de Venne and Sebastiaan Ostkamp, The Deventer system as a tool: an introduction (Aleike) and opportunities internationally (Sebastiaan)

02: 10.00–10.25 – Mike van Venrooij, The early 15th-century production of red and grey firing wares in the Netherlands

03: 10.25–10.50 – P. Kleij, Half angels: seventeenth-century stove-tiles from Zaandam

COFFEE BREAK 11.00–11.30

2nd session

04: 11.30–11.55 – Maxime Poulain, Ceramic alchemical apparatus in late-medieval Bruges: an interdisciplinary attempt at interpretation

05: 11.55–12.20 – Erki Russow and Torbjörn Brorsson, Late Medieval Terracotta and Pipeclay Plaques and Figurines in the Baltic: Distribution and Provenance

06: 12.20–12.45 – Karl Linden and Natascha Mehler, How Tin Glazing Reached the North...

07: 12.45–13.10 – Veronica Forsblom-Ljungdahl and Jeanette Gustavsson, Nya Lödöse, some results and reflections ten years later

LUNCH 13.15–14.30

3rd session

08: 14.30–14.55 – Volker Demuth, Pottery from the Netherlands in South-Western Norway, 1200 – 1700. 500 years of contacts, mirrored in ceramics

09: 14.55–15.20 – Frauke Witte, Bodil Møller Knudsen and Harald Stadler, Same shape – different use. The double bowl and its use in Europe

10: 15.20–15.45 – Jette Linaa, Clay on the Move: Everyday Dutch and Danish Pottery in Cross-Border Culinary Practice

11: 15.45–16.10 – Johan Thörnqvist and Tom Wennberg, A Dutch Apothecary’s Cesspit in the First Years of the City of Gothenburg

16.15–16.30 – NEXT MEETING, FUTURE PROSPECTS

16.30–18.00(ish) – A view of finds: Wytze Stellingwerf. Province of North Holland. Late- and postmedieval local and imported ceramics from Enkhuizen and Westfrisia, including the Werra production by Spiegel.

19.30 – OFFICIAL DINNER, location to be announced

FRIDAY (24.04.)

gathering 8.30–9.00

1st session

12: 9.00–9.25 – Derek Hall, Ceramics from the Glencoe Archaeology Project, Scotland

13: 9.25–9.50 – Maija Helamaa, Repair and reuse

14: 9.50–10.15 – Christoph Keller, Milk bowls and holy water basins – Pottery products of a 19th-century earthenware potter from Bedburg-Königshoven (Germany)

15: 10.15–10.40 – Claes Hadevik, The Amaliegade excavation and the Chinese porcelain figurines

16: 10.40–11.05 – Anton Miegel, On the cutting edge? – Stoneware production in 16th-century Düsseldorf

COFFEE BREAK 11.05–11.30

2nd session

17: 11.30–11.55 – Joakim Kjellberg, 3D modelling of medieval pottery – a tool for interpretation or a gimmick for public engagement?

18: 11.55–12.20 – Ilze Reinfelde, Medieval and early modern period pottery lighting devices in Riga

19: 12.20–12.45 – Michał Starski, “Fast food” on a construction site? Ceramic vessels from the construction phase of the Teutonic Castle in Człuchów (Pomerelia)

20: 12.45–13.10 – Erik Johansson, Typology and Provenance in South Scandinavian Medieval Earthenware - The Case of Lund, 1150-1350

LUNCH 13.15–14.45

3rd session

21: 14.45–15.10 – Alberto Vitolo, Reconstructing the Provenance of Bartmann Jugs: New Archaeometric Evidence from Eight Production Sites

22: 15.10–15.35 – Dagmar and Patrick Rauch, Werra ware for export to Northern Europe – Reassessment of Hesse Wanfried as its alleged central production site

23: 15.35–16.00 – Detlef Wilke and Hans-Georg Stephan, Non-destructive geochemical provenancing of Werra Ware from the upper Weser region and the Dutch production site at Enkhuizen

24: 16.00–16.25 – Markus Wehmer, Stove tiles (and slipware findings) from Nordhausen in Thuringia and Enkhuizen

25: 16.25–16.50 – José-Antonio Ruiz Gil, Dutch pottery in historical context found in the Bay of Cadiz

SATURDAY (25.04.)

Excursion by bus

Departure at 09.15 from Enkhuizen railway station to Lelystad, Batavialand

10.00–11.45 – Visit the Batavialand National Maritime Archaeological Depot (guided tour by archaeology specialists)

Or: Visit the ship wharf (own costs)

11.45–13.00 – drive from Lelystad to Amsterdam-Havens West

13.00–15.00 – lunch, guided tour through the depot of BMA, Amsterdam Archaeological Service, by Ranjith Jayasena and Ron Toussain

15.30 – drop off at Amsterdam-Sloterdijk Railway Station

Return to Hoorn (16.15) and Enkhuizen (17.00)

BNPG6 Enkhuizen, 23rd–24th April 2026