Figure 18. — Unglazed earthenware bottle, probably of Yorktown 

 manufacture, discarded about 1765. Found in Williamsburg. Sur- 

 viving heieht 23.81 centimeters. 



found. These considerations cannot be ignored, and 

 consequently we must carefully avoid the trap of 

 attributing all 18th-century, lead-glazed earthenwares 

 made from Tidewater clay to the Rogers factory. A 

 wood-fired Yorktown kiln burning pottery made from 

 Peninsula clay and coated with a clear lead glaze 

 would produce wares possessing variations of texture 

 and color similar to those emerging from a comparable 

 kiln, say, at Williamsburg. 85 Therefore, in attempting 

 to assess the range and importance of Rogers' earthen- 

 wares we must use potting techniques alone as out- 

 guide to their identification. 



The principal evidence comes from the cut beside 

 Main Street in Yorktown in front of the Digges 

 Housed' 1 where numerous rim fragments of overfired 

 and unglazed creampans were found. Others were 



It must be stressed that no evidence oi any su< li kiln exists. 

 See also footnote 30. 



This material is divided between the colonial archeological 

 of the Smithsonian Institution and of Colonial 

 lure. 



recovered from the edges of the roadways on three 

 sides of the adjacent colonial lots 51 and 55, shown on 

 the 18th-century plat (Watkins, fig. 1) as having 

 belonged to William Rogers. The rims from these 

 deposits flared slightly, were tooled inward, and were 

 flattened on the upper surface (fig. 13, no. 1). Frag- 

 ments of such bowls, usually coated on the inside with 

 a mottled lead glaze varying in color from Iighl 

 ginger to the tone and appearance of molasses, 

 depending on the color of the body, are frequently 

 found in Williamsburg (fig. 14) and on plantation sites 

 in contexts of the second quarter of the 18th century. 

 This creampan form is one of two made from Virginia 

 clay which constantly turn up in contemporaneous 

 archeological deposits. The second form (figs. 13, 

 no. 2, and 15) possesses an everted and rolled rim, 8 ' an 



87 I. Noil Hume, "Excavations at Tutter's Neck, James 

 City County in Virginia, 1960—1961," paper 53 in Contributions 

 from the Museum o] History and Technology (U.S. National 

 Museum Bulletin 249); Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 

 1966, fig. in, nos. 1. :■>, and 4. 



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