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Aside from Oristano, other manufacturing sites have been gleaned from cer-
tain sixteenth-century sources referring to pottery workshops in south-central
Sardinia, Cagliari, and Decimommanu.26 As for northern Sardinia, archival
documents point to Alghero in 1570, referring to tile-makers and potters who
were affiliated with stonemasons and carpenters, probably because their activ-
ity was not deemed sufficiently important to grant them autonomy. The use of
clay from the region of Capo Galera, along the northern coast, is document-
ed in the same city for the production of ware throughout the seventeenth
century.27 Nevertheless, extensive urban archaeological research in Alghero
(from 1997 to the present), along with initial research on regional glazed ce-
ramics, have not revealed clear signs of the local production of pottery, though
it is still necessary to set scientific analysis side by side with typological studies
renouvellement des XVe–XVIe siècles en France méditerranénne: les lieux, les hommes
et les produits,” in Atti del VI Congresso dell’AIECM2 (Aix en Provence, 1995), pp. 529–538.
26 Marini and Ferru, Storia della ceramica in Sardegna, pp. 85–93.
27 The documents are cited in Antonio Budruni, Breve storia di Alghero dal 1478 al 1720
(Alghero, 1989), p. 204.
Figure 15.4 Oristanese Slip Ware from the excavation of San Giacomo Bastions in
Alghero.