(b) A true medieval
sandy ware, rather soft, with coarsish silvery sand and some
chalk, grey core, pink to crimson surfaces; includes a
joined-on sagging-base-angle (β
[b] west, W101, and in the undercrofts in W, rather than X,
contexts).
(c) Fine, very thin, brown to grey
surfaces, with rouletted ornament: X9 (Fig. 17) (Hall
undercroft, under primary floor).
(d) Medium to dark grey with chestnut
overtones, a little shell: bowls (Fig. 17), Y11, Y12, cruder,
thumbed, and a jug (λ
[l], all on slope beneath Great Kitchen-Y105). May be from
Medway area—similar to later wares from Temple Manor,
Strood.
(e) Hard, even, light grey; probably East
Anglian, in 'Thetford' tradition; wall-sherds from Y, and Z16
(Fig. 17), cooking-pot with sharply recurved rim (μ
[m] sealed).
Sand-tempered Wares from London Area (?).
Perhaps related to 'London' glazed wares. Two fabrics, the
earlier 'ST c', even sandy texture, dark, almost black
and burnished exterior, pink-buff to red lining, occurs in Z
and A; the later, ST d, with grey core and smooth pink
surfaces inside and out, almost in a slip, in A and B. All are
jugs. Z19, with rich red lining and strip ornament, and Z23
(both μ [m],
sealed) represent ST c (Fig. 19). B30, B31, B32, with
various styles of handle (all sealed B, behind Hall),
represent ST d, which might possibly originate in east
Kent, though the colour is not like any known Tyler Hill types
(Fig. 23).
East Kent Wares (?). Very little: a few
sherds in A, BB and a little more in D seem to come from
oxidized Tyler Hill, or similar, jugs (STe).
Wares intermediate between ST c and
Main Series. Grey wares, a shade coarser than usual, with
black sand showing up in a generally buffish lining—possibly
true Surrey wares, but more likely the predecessors of ST a;
called ST /. Z17, Z18, collared jugs (Fig. 17), Z24 neatly
stabbed handle (all μ
[m], sealed) (Fig. 19).
Dark Grey Wares with striated Surfaces. SS
g, dark grey, slightly shell-gritted wares, resembling
SS b, but thin for their relatively rough surfaces,
which are marked by very regular latitudinal striations or
brushings. This is a well known London-Middlesex feature—it
may be a very refined form of scratch-marking. Not numerous,
but including two practically complete vessels: A20 (Fig. 17),
small cooking-pot, and B12 (Fig. 18), large cooking-pot with
thumb-strips and advanced rim profile, approaching those
normal in D. Both well sealed.
Very hard Grey Wares. Perhaps just
over-fired examples of ST a or ST b, but more
probably intentional and non-local. Jug-sherds of a fused,
ringing quality, core and interior grey, exterior often
mauvish. Not numerous, but found in A, B, BB (not the result
of secondary firing). |