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Yannick Signer

@archaeoyannick.bsky.social

Archaeologist | PhD Researcher at the University of York | 🏺 | Research: pottery, rural landscapes and everything medieval Yorkshire

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 17/12/2025

NEW Ceramic vessels from Early Modern Slovenia, used in the production of mercury. Examination of the pottery finds mercury production matched how it was described in Agricola's De re metallica, published in 1556, shedding light on this early industry. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Illustrations of four pottery vessels (somewhat light-bulb shaped), five potsherds, and one photograph of a circular piece of pottery (a lid).

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Yannick Signer @archaeoyannick.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The book includes further papers on rural markets, fairs and trade from across Europe and is really worth a read! You can find it here: www.sidestone.com/books/farmer...

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Farmers’ trade and markets @ Sidestone Press

This volume brings together a series of case studies on the social and economic interaction and organisation in the medieval and early modern European countryside. In particular, it focuses on rural a...

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Yannick Signer @archaeoyannick.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

In my paper, I explore how we can use ceramic data to investigate the role of medieval weekly markets and annual fairs in the distribution of pottery. This is largely based on some of my PhD research on the production and use of medieval pottery in the Vale of Pickering (Yorkshire).

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Yannick Signer @archaeoyannick.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"This little potter went to market" is now online! Excited to share that my peer-reviewed contribution to "Farmers’ trade and markets: Social and economic interaction in the medieval and early modern European countryside" is now available! Find it here: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...

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