Green-ish Pottery Sherd

[TheAndyA]

A surface find from yesterday afternoon, I'd also found an Elizabeth I Hammered and what I think may be a Tudor buckle fragment nearby. (TBC). Oh I also picked up a thick dark coloured glass gragment too.

It has a green/brown glazed surface on one side and what looks like the inner surface is un-glazed.

I'm wondering which era this sherd might be from?

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[Mike. T.]

Medieval green glaze pot sherd. Always unglazed on the inside of the vessel.

[Oxgirl36]

13-14th century

[TheAndyA]

Oh wow, thanks Mike and Cath. I'm finding the Pottery quite fascinating, it's very useful to have another method of discovering the history of a location.

[thefiggis]

Very similar to a piece I found on a job a few years back. The building was raised in the mid-15thC and I found it smack in the middle of the original footings. Well, I say "footings" when that should really read "few lumps of flint piled together." But it worked and the building's as good today as it was when it was built.

A pox on modern Building Regs, I say. But I'll stop saying anything else or I'll be way off topic and due for a severe wigging

[Oxgirl36]

I doubt 13-14th century, as (salt) glazing became common in the 15th century.

This looks like salt glazing, so old, 15/16th century, early glazed i will confirm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_glaz ... ry#History

Agreed if it was salt glazed but it isn’t. This has a much higher shine and smoother finish than salt glazed items

[Oxgirl36]

This looks like salt glazing, so old, 15/16th century, early glazed i will confirm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_glaz ... ry#History

Agreed if it was salt glazed but it isn’t. This has a much higher shine and smoother finish than salt glazed items

What kind of glazing would you name it then if i may ask?

If so as you say then it would be even less old? Cause as far as i know salt glaze was the first ever oldest pottery glazing. And to me it for sure is glazed.

Glazed pottery goes back a long way. Here’s a link to some 13th century high glazed pottery https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/ ... jug&page=1

On my sites I have glazed pottery back to pre conquest times - 10th century. It goes back way before then I think but not sure when it arrived in England