Introduction

This second publication, below, was produced to record the work carried out for, and the findings associated with, the Ramsey Abbey Community Archaeology Project.

The first publication was for general interest and to support the ‘Treasures of Ramsey Abbey’ exhibition held at the Norris Museum, St Ives and the Ramsey Rural Museum, Ramsey in July and August 2021. It informed the reader about the project, the site, and the people involved. It talked about the landscape in which the abbey was built and how, five hundred years later, it was destroyed. In many ways it is a document produced to understand the site and help drive the project.

The second publication is much more specific, describing the ceramic industry associated with Ramsey Abbey, cataloguing the relief tiles, and discussing their design.