Fabric 63 - Brill-Boarstall type ware


Iron poor fabric with abundant, well-sorted quartz (<0.2mm) and occasional iron inclusions (<1.0mm).
Some sherds are pale orange throughout others are orange to buff or buff to pale grey

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Fabric 63 Brill-Boarstall type ware

Manufacture
Wheel-thrown
Decoration
Some jugs have an external thin lead glaze, sometimes with bright green blotches. Others have a dark green glaze. Jugs found in Worcestershire tend to be highly decorated with applied stamped faces, pellets and strips, roller stamping and red and white slip painted decoration.
Brill-Boarstall, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Highly decorated jugs have a wide distribution. They seem to be the product of the Boarstall rather than the Brill potteries. Oxford was the main market, but jugs in this fabric have also been found in Warwickshire, Droitwich and Worcester. At present they have not been identified from Hereford or Gloucester.
Medieval (13th century)
At Droitwich jugs in this fabric were found in a construction deposit dated to 1264-5.

Texture & Colour

Hardness
Hard
Surface treatment
Yellow/green lead glaze, slip

Core colour
Pale orange
Int surface colour
Orange
Ext surface colour
Grey

Inclusions (2)

DB ID Modified Description Frequency Size Sorting Rounding
31 0 Quartz Abundant Fine Well-sorted Rounded
32 0 Iron-rich pellets Sparse Medium

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Concordance (5)