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handle is heavily stabbed and is typical of many examples found at
Eynsford, in phase D. M.S.2, unusual bowl rim, diameter 33.5 cm., in 'Sandy-shelly'
ware, light grey with buff surfaces. M.S.3, cooking-pot rim, sand-tempered
fabric, flanged rim with convex top and pointed inner bead, short neck.
GLAZED WARES
The range of fabrics was less wide than at Eynsford, but
again the London area products predominate.
JUGS
(a) London Area Wares
Without slip: Hard, fine, sand-tempered fabrics,
generally with grey body and orange-brown surfaces, which are sometimes
streaky grey-brown internally. The glaze is of good quality, generally a
shiny dark olive-green with darker green speckles. Seven sherds-four
wall sherds, two with faint vertical brush-marks; two rims, both with very
mottled green glaze, P.P.7, a flat-topped bead-rim, diameter 10 cm., and
P.P.8 from a baluster jug, diameter 12.7 cm.; a thumbed base, P.P.6, with
runs of glaze from the upper body and a patch of glaze on the underside.
With slip: Very much as the above but a white slip
goes just inside the rim and covers the body almost to the base,
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showing that the jug was held in an inverted position and dipped into the
glaze. This is the typical 'London Baluster' fabric, already found at
Eynsford in phase B and dominant in phase D, ending in 1312. It is the most
common ware in this Dartford group. P.P.9 and P.P.10 are wall sherds with
raised strips of clay added to the slipped body before glazing, the strips
decorated with a rouletted pattern of small diamonds giving a trellis
effect, a decoration common at Eynsford,10 P.P.11 is a
reconstructed baluster with a rod handle, like the Eynsford example Fig. 24
D54 except that this does not have a thumbed base. P.P.12 and 12a are strap
handles; 12a includes a wall sherd with light vertical grooves or brushmarks.
The grooved rod handle P.P.13 has two pieces of clay added at the top; this
is reminiscent of the 'spurs' on French jugs.11 P.P.14
is a thumbed base, diameter 15.1 cm.
(b) Surrey Ware
Off-white Surrey ware, fine sand-tempered buff ware with a
good quality olive green glaze, at Eynsford in phase D. A thumbed
base, P.P.15, diameter 18 cm., and two wall-sherds.
10 Ibid., fig. 24, D57.
11 Ibid.,
K. J. Barton, 'Medieval Pottery at Rouen', Arch. Journ.,
cxxii (1965), 73-86.
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