VESSEL

Ceramic vessel body sherd. The fabric is a hard-fired, gritty ware, iron-red at the interior surface and reduced to grey black at the core. The exterior surface has an olive-green glaze covering the full length of the sherd, with a pimpled texture. Humber Ware. The sherd is unusual in its surviving form - the exterior part of the sherd is, visible as a sub-annular disc, though the interior surface has not received the same treatment and appears as a natural sherd break. Rounded medallions associated with the earlier York Glazed Ware seal jugs frequently survive where the break is association only with the thicker part of the fabric where the seal was applied; as this decoration is not associated with the later Humber Ware industry, the discoidal form of this sherd must have been manually worked. No clear evidence for tooling of the sherd is visible. Incomplete counter?

Medieval: AD 1275-1500

Mainman, A. and Jenner, A. 2013. Medieval Pottery from York (The Archaeology of York 16/9). York: York Archaeological Trust, 1275-82.

The vessel fragment is 52.9mm long, 36.7mm wide, 10.8mm thick and weighs 22.5g.

Report by

Adam Parker

Assistant Curator of Archaeology, Yorkshire Museum