As expected, given the presence of the Stone House complex, a wide array of colonial (English, German and Italian) wheel-thrown wares are known from site PG64. The selections below represent only pottery from well-documented areas of the excavation (i.e. stratified and from blocks associated with diary entries). The introductory video below gives a summary of some of these wares, along with their defining characteristics. Additional information can be found in the document links and images associated with particular wares in the list below. The latter are arranged both by type (ceramic technology used) and chronologically.

An introduction to colonial and later ceramics at site PG64 by Beth Bollwerk (2018)

Additional resources are included in the table below:

Ware information Jamestown Ceramic Research
Ware information Historical Archaeology Collection, Florida Museum
Vessel forms Historical Archaeology Collection, Florida Museum
Visual synopsis Poster
In depth archive about the Colonial and Antebellum era DAACS Archive

Chronological framework:

Piersey’s purchase of Flowerdew Hundred: 1625-1626

Piersey’s death: 1628

Stone House use-span: ca. 1626 to 1650

Elizabeth, Piersey’s daughter sells Flowerdew: ca. 1636

Establishment of Flowerdew Towne: 1683

List of relevant wares, arranged by type:

Earthenware

  • Lead-glazed
    • North Devon, Plain or Gravel (yellowish-brown glaze), 1680-1750 CE. Info1, 2, view.
    • Borderware (yellow-green glaze), 1500-1700 CE. Info1, 2, with views.
    • North Italian Marbled (cream-brown marble glaze), 1610-1675 CE; English imitation as Agateware, 1740-1775 CE. Info, view.
  • Tin-glazed
    • Majolica/Montelupo Polychrome (offwhite glaze, painted), 1500-1575 CE. Info, view.
    • Delftware (Dutch; blue or bluish glaze, can be polychrome), 1640-1740 CE. Info, view1, 2.
    • delftware (English and Dutch; bluish glaze, can be plain), 1640-1800 CE. Info, view.

Stoneware

  • Salt-glazed
    • Frechen-Rhineland (reddish-brown glaze), 1500-1700 CE. Info1, info2, view.
    • English Brown (reddish-brown glaze), 1690-1775 CE. Info, view.

List of relevant wares, arranged chronologically:

Predating the Stone House construction

  • Majolica/Montelupo Polychrome (offwhite glaze, painted), 1500-1575 CE.

During the Stone House use-span

  • Frechen-Rhineland (reddish-brown glaze), 1500-1700 CE.
  • Borderware (yellow-green glaze), 1500-1700 CE.
  • North Italian Marbled (cream-brown marble glaze), 1610-1675 CE.
  • Delftware (Dutch; blue or bluish glaze, can be polychrome), 1640-1740 CE.
  • delftware (English and Dutch; bluish glaze, can be plain), 1640-1800 CE.

Possibly postdating the Stone House

  • North Devon, Plain or Gravel (yellowish-brown glaze), 1680-1750 CE.
  • English Brown (reddish-brown glaze), 1690-1775 CE.