The publication is focused on late medieval pottery products with higher aesthetical effect. The key group is represented by stove tiles, where the unifying elements of relief decoration helped to define series of motifs for stoves with specific iconographic concept, which were found in various locations. The same approach can be also used with small ceramic sculptures, aquamaniles and relief-decorated floor tiles, even though the achieved information value in these cases is much lower. Micropetrographic, XRF and other analyses helped to identify the production centres and the distribution model of these ceramic groups. 3D documentation enabled a detailed comparison of differences between individual reliefs and specific traces of manufacturing procedures. Individual chapters contain active links to the source database of analysed items and to 3D models of selected specimens from reference collections.

This contribution discusses a series of renaissance medallion tiles uncovered in 1996-1997 in the fill of the "wolf pit" under the gateway tower of the Jánský Vrch castle in the town of Javorník. The series comprises stove products made in the Anabaptist style that were parts of stoves heating the rooms in the bishop's castle around the mid-16th century.

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This article presents two series of tiles, from the Frýdek chateau (acquired in 1975 and 1995) and from the north side of the historical centre of the town (2003) where sherds indicated the presence of a potter's workshop. As the waste features below the chateau hill yielded tiles with similar decoration as seen on those from the chateau, it is possible that stove tiles were made there, along with kitchenware and tableware, in the 16th century and in the early 17th century.

This contribution maps the basic phases of archaeological research in the territory of Czech Silesia and the neighbouring region of northern Moravia, from the early 19th century until the present. The paper gives an account of the people and institutions that have contributed to the development of archaeology of the Middle Ages, including the key sites and excavations the results of which brought information about the history of settlement, hillforts, urbanization, sacral architecture and material culture in the early and high Middle Ages.