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.
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
- Tin-glazed
Stoneware
- Salt-glazed
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.