Joanna Dawson is an archaeologist who has done her dissertation on the pottery from middens from Edinburgh City Poorhouse at Craiglockhart. She currently works for Headland Archaeology.
The full dissertation on crockery from Craiglockhart Poorhouse's midden is now available.
The dissertation overview contains information on early pottery found at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum (Hospital) from Clyde Pottery and other sources.
More details can be found here.
A letters page contains relevant letters and minutes from meetings from the Royal Edinburgh Asylum to pottery retailers which shows how the Managers got really hacked off at not getting decent pottery and were driven to apply to the manufacturers direct. A digest is provided at the start of this page for your benefit...
There is also a page on crockery-related documents from Edinburgh City Poorhouse.
If you have any information regarding the Poorhouse at Craiglockhart in Edinburgh, or would like to know more yourself, please contact jo@poorhouse.org.uk
The text on this site, other than quoted text, photographs and diagrams other than maps are © Copyright Jo Dawson 1999,2000,2001. It may be copied in full or in part as long as it is unedited and this copyright notice is retained.
Last updated 6 August 2001
Page designed with help from Jonathan Riddell without whose help and encouragement all this would not have been possible.