Pottery from the Snape field-Walking (Site SNA/14)
Paul Blinkhorn
Pottery Types
Pottery Types
RB: Roman. All Roman grey wares.
EMW: Early Medieval Sandy Ware: AD1100-1400. Hard fabric with plentiful quartz sand mixed in with the clay. Manufactured at a wide range of generally unknown sites all over eastern England. Mostly cooking pots, but bowls and occasionally jugs also known.
HED: Hedingham Ware: Late 12th – 14th century. Fine orange/red glazed pottery, made at Sible Hedingham in Essex. The surfaces of the sherds have a sparkly appearance due to there being large quantities of mica, a glassy mineral, in the clay. Pots usually glazed jugs.
LMT: Late Medieval Ware: Hard, reddish-orange pottery with lots of sand mixed in with the clay. Made from about 1400 – 1550 in lots of different places in East Anglia. Used for everyday pottery such as jugs and large bowls, and also large pots (‘cisterns’) for brewing beer.
RAER: Raeren Stoneware, 1480 – 1550. Hard, grey German stoneware with a brown iron ‘wash’ beneath the glaze on the outer surface.
GRE: Glazed Red Earthenwares: Fine sandy earthenware, usually with a brown or green glaze, usually on the inner surface. Made at numerous locations all over England. Occurs in a range of practical shapes for use in the households of the time, such as large mixing bowls, cauldrons and frying pans. It was first made around the middle of the 16th century, and in some places continued in use until the 19th century.
FREC: Frechen Stoneware, 1550-1750. Hard, grey German stoneware with a speckled brown and grey salt glaze.
BW: Border Ware, 1550-1750. White/buff fabric with a bright yellow and/or green glaze. Made at a number of sites on the Surrey/Hampshire border, in a wide range of utilitarian forms.
MB: Midland Blackware. AD1550 – 1700. Similar to GRE, but has a black glaze on one or both surfaces. Vessels usually tall cups, jugs and bowls.
WCS: Cologne Stoneware. Hard, grey pottery made in the Rhineland region of Germany from around 1600 onwards. Usually has lots of ornate moulded decoration, often with blue and purple painted details. Still made today, mainly as tourist souvenirs.
SS: Staffordshire Slipware. Made between about AD1640 and 1750. This was the first pottery to be made in moulds in Britain since Roman times. The clay fabric is usually a pale buff colour, and the main product was flat dishes and plates, but cups were also made. These are usually decorated with thin brown stripes and a yellow glaze, or yellow stripes and a brown glaze.
EST: English Stoneware: Very hard, grey fabric with white and/or brown surfaces. First made in Britain at the end of the 17th century, usually for inn tankards, then became very common in the 18th and 19th century, particularly for mineral water or ink bottles and beer jars.
SWSG: White Salt-Glazed Stoneware. Delicate white pottery made between 1720 and 1780, usually for tea cups and mugs. Has a finely pimpled surface, like orange peel.
VIC: ‘Victorian’. A wide range of different types of pottery, particularly the cups, plates and bowls with blue decoration which are still used today. First made around AD1800.
Results
RB EMW HED LMT RAER GRE FREC BW MB WCS SS EST SWSG 19th
Tr S No Wt No Wt No Wt No Wt No Wt No Wt No Wt No Wt No Wt No Wt No Wt No Wt No Wt No Wt 0 0-20 1 12 1 5 3 39
20 0-20
20 20-40 2 20
20 40-60
20 60-80 1 1
40 0-20 1 12
40 20-40
40 40-60
40 60-80 1 14 1 4 1 21 1 18
40 80-100
40 100-120 1 2
40 120-140
60 0-20
60 20-40 2 6
60 40-60 2 6
60 60-80
60 80-100
60 100-120 1 1
60 120-140 1 1
60 140-160 1 9 1 5
60 160-180 1 7
80 0-20 1 7
80 20-40
80 40-60 1 1
80 60-80
80 80-100 1 2 1 6 1 16 1 12
80 100-120 2 15
80 120-140 2 24 1 5
80 140-160 1 3 2 6 1 11 2 5
80 160-180 2 3
80 180-200 1 8 1 5
100 0-20 2 16
100 20-40 2 6
100 40-60 1 3 1 4
100 60-80 1 9
100 80-100 3 9
100 100-120
100 120-140 1 2
100 140-160 2 4
100 160-180 1 14 1 4
100 180-200
120 0-20
120 20-40
120 40-60 1 1 1 5
120 60-80 1 11
120 80-100 2 15 1 5
120 100-120 1 1 1 6
120 120-140 1 6 1 3
120 140-160
120 160-180 1 1 2 2
140 0-20
140 20-40 1 5 1 3 2 2
140 40-60
140 60-80 1 3
140 80-100 1 5 1 16 5 8
140 100-120
140 120-140 1 3
140 140-160
140 160-180 1 7
160 0-20 2 2
160 20-40 1 4 1 1
160 40-60 1 1
160 60-80 1 4
160 80-100
160 100-120 2 18 1 24 1 15 2 24
160 120-140
160 140-160 1 3
180 0-20 1 4 1 5
180 20-40 4 32
180 40-60
180 60-80 1 3
180 80-100 1 6
180 100-120 4 16 3 30 1 1
180 120-140 1 1 1 3
180 140-160
200 0-20 1 1
200 20-40
200 40-60 3 23 1 6 4 18
200 60-80 2 3 1 24
200 80-100 1 12 2 2
200 100-120 3 13 1 27 2 28
200 120-140 1 1 1 1
220 0-20
220 20-40 1 3 2 7
220 40-60 1 1
220 60-80 1 9 2 13 1 4
220 80-100 1 3 1 4
220 100-120
220 120-140 2 19 3 19 1 6
240 0-20 2 5 2 17 1 3
240 20-40
240 40-60 1 1 1 4 1 1
240 60-80 1 12
240 80-100 2 10
240 100-120 1 6
240 120-140 1 3
260 0-20 2 22 1 2 1 1
260 20-40
260 40-60 1 13 1 3 1 6 1 6
260 60-80 1 4 1 5 1 1
260 80-100 1 3
260 100-120 2 6
Total 8 41 22 138 4 28 16 73 2 15 65 394 5 59 1 11 1 2 1 16 1 5 6 67 4 17 47 203