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character of the archaeological deposits excavated within the city. An exception, the 17th and 18thcentury filling of the well at St Paul-in-the-Bail, is the subject of a separate report. Summaryby O'Neill as cinerary vessels found in a 'Roman crematorium' (O'Neill, 1885).Discoveries from excavation in the modern sense started with Graham Webster's excavation at Flaxengate between 1945 and 1947(Coppack, 1973. Here for the first time stratified medieval deposits were excavated and recorded in a scientific manner, subsequently providing Glyn Coppack with the material to construct the first medieval pottery sequence for the city (ibid). Although in the light of more recent work the exact dating of this material Adams Gilmour as a permanent Medieval Pottery Researcher to work on material from the numerous excavations carried out by the then Lincoln Archaeological Trust added a new impetus to pottery studies. Major innovative work carried out by Dr. Adams Gilmour on material from sites at Broadgate (Adams, 1977) and Flaxengate (Adams Gilmour, 1988) 7 Methodology or slipped decoration and other non-standard conventions are shown in Fig. 4.