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Ms Maureen Mellor

Member of Common Room

Independent Researcher

Oxford Lifelong Learning

Maureen Mellor is an archaeologist with a special interest in medieval interiors and diet. With over thirty years’ experience, she brings an interdisciplinary approach to the products of English and European clay industries in field archaeology and in museums. She recently collaborated with the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol on a paper on food residues in pottery vessels of the High Medieval Period.

She is Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and a member of the Oxford Antiquarian Dining Club and the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society. She is a former member of the Council of the Society for Medieval Archaeology and the Court of the Worshipful Company of Arts
Scholars, thereby linking the art world and collectors with scholarship.

Recent publications

Maureen Mellor, Pots and Tiles of the Middle Ages, Paul Holberton, London. 2014.

Maureen Mellor, Overview: medieval industry and commerce, in C. M. Gerrard and A. Gutierrez (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018, pp435-454.

Maureen Mellor, Producers and Patrons: late medieval decorative paving tiles in the south-west Chiltern Hills, in B. Jervis (ed.) The Middle Ages Revisited. Studies in the Archaeology and History of Medieval southern England. Presented to Professor David A. Hinton. Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford 2018, pp85-113.

Maureen Mellor and Lucy Cramp (forthcoming) Travelled pottery: organic residues reveal patterns of agricultural practice at demesne farms in rural Oxfordshire.