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£8Rg* 



^*s 



Figure 11. — An underfired Yorktown "stoneware" bottle, discarded about 1765. 

 Found in Williamsburg. Surviving height 24.77 centimeters. 



handle rugged and tidily shaped into a finger-im- 

 pressed rattail terminal. The handle can, perhaps, be 

 faulted, in that it will accommodate only two fingers 

 with comfort, and it is a little wider in proportion to 

 its size than any I have seen in England. The iron- 

 oxide slip which extends to the midsection of the bodv 

 is well mottled and predominantly of good color. 

 Ignoring the underfiring, this bottle may be classed as 

 a very creditable piece of potting, seemingly quite 



od a most such vessels turned out by English 



potters in the mid- 18th century. 77 

 Globular-bodied jars with everted collarlike mouths 



' : Iln' majority ol archeologicall) documented pieces have 

 been recovered from English domestic sites and not from kiln 

 dumps. 



can be proved to have been made at Yorktown on the 

 evidence of a few small under- and over-fired sherds 

 recovered from the old road metaling in front of the 

 Digges House. The best example recovered from a 

 dated archeological context in Virginia is ajar found 

 in a rubbish deposit of about 1763-1772 at the 

 plantation of Rosewell in Gloucester County. 78 But 

 like the well-fired bottles, its Yorktown provenance 

 cannot yet be proved. 



The last major category of kitchen stoneware 

 believed to have been made .it the Yorktown pottn\ 



"I. Noii Hume, "Excavations at Rosewell, Gloucestei 

 County, Virginia, 1957 1959," papei 18 in Contributions from 

 the Museum oj History and Technology Papers 12-18, I S 

 National Museum Bulletin 225, by various authors; Washing- 

 ton, Smithsonian Institution, 1963), p. L'n,'!, no. 3 .md p. 209, 

 fig. 28, no. !. 



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