Staff

Dr Alejandra Gutierrez

Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology

Contact Dr Alejandra Gutierrez (email at alejandra.gutierrez@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Alejandra Gutiérrez is a freelance pottery and finds specialist and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Archaeology, University of Durham.

She has worked in the past for Cotswold Archaeological Trust as Research Assistant. She is a member of the Medieval Pottery Research Group and of the Finds Research Group. Her particular interests include medieval pottery from the Mediterranean, especially Spanish tin-glazed ceramics, and the study of finds from medieval and post-medieval contexts in Britain.

Alejandra has published a variety of research papers, including a book on Mediterranean Pottery in Wessex Households (12th to 17th centuries).

Research Interests

Material culture
Medieval and later pottery and finds
Mediterranean pottery
Spanish medieval archaeology

Indicators of Esteem

2011: :
External referee for Journal of Material Culture, World Archaeology, Post-Medieval Archaeology and Medieval Ceramics.
2011: Invited speaker:
"Of Sundry Colours and Moulds": Imports of Early Modern Pottery Along the Atlantic Seaboard. Velhos e Novos Mundos. Congresso International de Arqueologia Moderna, Lisbon, May 2011.
2011: Invited speaker:
"De colores extraños": la loza dorada española en las Islas Británicas. International conference The wonders of the world. Lustre and luxury in European networks of exchange, Berlin, 17th-20th November 2011.
2009: Invited speaker:
Relaciones e intercambio en el Atlántico Norte medieval: la evidencia cerámica. Simposio internacional «Gentes del Mar». Historia y Arqueología en el litoral del Arco Atlántico, Luanco, December 2009.
2011:
Member of the Scientific Commitee for the International Congress of Early Modern Archaeology, Velhos e Novos Mundos, Lisbon

Publications

Books: authored

Gutierrez, A. (2005). Un viaje a las fortificaciones medievales de Tarazona y el Moncayo Monasterio de Veruela, 16 septiembre-30 octubre, 2005. Zaragoza: Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza.
Gutiérrez, A. (2000). Mediterranean Pottery in Wessex Households (12th to 17th centuries). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports 306.

Books: sections

Gutiérrez, A (2011). 'The versatile bote: Spanish decorated jars and their uses'. In The Archaeology of Medieval Europe. Vol. 2 Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries. Carver, M & Klapste, J Aarhus University Press. 305-307.
Gutiérrez, A (2007). Bone, ivory and antler objects. In The Shapwick Project. A rural landscape explored. Gerrard, CM Leeds: Society for Medieval Archaeology. 25: 790-796.
Gutiérrez, A (2007). Medieval floor tiles. In The Shapwick Project. A rural landscape explored. Gerrard, CM Leeds: Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph. 25: 804-806.
Gutierrez, A. (2007). Post-Roman Pottery. In The Shapwick Project, Somerset, A Rural Landscape Explored. Gerrard, C. M. Leeds: Society for Medieval Archaeology. 25.
Gutiérrez, A (2006). The medieval and later pottery. In Landscape,Community and Colonisation: the North Somerset Levels during the 1st to 2nd millennia AD. Rippon, S London: CBA Research Report. 152: 211-221.
Gutiérrez, A (2003). The Spanish jar. In Aelfric’s abbey. Excavations at Eynsham Abbey, Oxfordshire 1989–92. Hardy, A, Dodd, A & Keevil, G D Oxford: Thames Valley Landscapes Volume. 16: 199-201.
Gutiérrez, A. (2000). The ceramic roofing material. In Ludgershall Castle. Excavations by Peter Addyman 1964–1972. Ellis, P Wiltshire Natural History and Archaeological Society Monograph Series 2. 223-228.
Gutiérrez, A. (1999). 'Some Italo-Netherlandish pottery from Winchester and Wickham, Hampshire'. In Maiolica in the North. Gaimster, D. (ed). London: British Museum Occasional Paper 122. 151–155.

Edited works: conference proceedings

Gutierrez, A (Published). Cerámica española en el extranjero: un caso inglés. Atti del IX Congresso Internazionale sulla Ceramica Medievale nel Mediterraneo, Venice, Italy, Edizioni All’Insegna del Giglio.

Journal papers: academic

Gutiérrez, A (2009). Flanged roof tile. In R Jackson, 'Excavations at the Old Council House, Corn Street, Bristol, 2005'. Bristol and Avon Archaeology 64-65 (47-78).
Gutiérrez, A (2009). Pottery. In R Jackson, 'Excavations at the Old Council House, Corn Street, Bristol, 2005'. Bristol and Avon Archaeology 59-64 (47-78).
Gutiérrez, A (2009). The pottery. In D E Y Young (ed), 'Excavation of an early medieval site at Brent Knoll, Somerset'. Somerset Archaeology and Natural History 152: 112-118 (105-138).
Gutierrez, A. (2007). Portuguese coarsewares in early modern England: reflections on an exceptional pottery assemblage from Southampton. Post-Medieval Archaeology 41(1): 64-79.
Gutiérrez, A (2006). ‘Appendix 4: The sherd of Spanish pottery’, in R Parker, J Allan, M Fletcher, R Higham and M Laithwaite ‘The Bishop’s palace at Chudleigh’. Devon Archaeological Society 64: 235-236.
Gutiérrez, A (2004). ‘Medieval pottery’, in P Ellis and P Leach (eds) ‘Roman and medieval remains at Manor Farm, Castle Cary’. Proceedings of the Somerset Natural History and Archaeology Society 147: 28-33.
Gutierrez, A. (2003). A Shipwreck Cargo of Sevillian Pottery from the Studland Bay Wreck, Dorset, UK. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 32(1): 24-41.