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POST-MEDIEVAL FINE WARES

(a) Tin glazed ware – English Delft

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Three sherds of Lambeth ware from pit K, early
eighteenth century:

1. A deep dish, diameter 8.7in. Internal
decoration of a lakeside scene with trees and
a windmill in blue.
2. A small dish, badly stained, with an internal
floral decoration on the base, and around the
rim a pattern of alternate swags and
diamonds.
3. A deep dish, diameter 8.7in.

(b) Slip ware

Two small sherds of brown glazed ware, with design Fig. 7. Medieval Wares.
in yellow slip. From (1) of rampart.

(c) Staffordshire wares

1. Sherds representing at least ten dishes, with frilled and scalloped rims. Buff ware, with yellow glaze and dark brown
lines, mostly combed. From top of rampart (1953). Common type (see B Rackham, Early Staffordshire Pottery, Pl. I).
2. Two rim sherds of brown mottled glazed ware, one ornamented with a double row of dots. Unstratified.

(d) Rhenish Stoneware - Siegburg

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A frilled base of grey stoneware, with brown glaze. From moat associated with fragments of tygs. Sixteenth century.

(f) Westerwald

Rim, neck and shoulder of grey stoneware, with typical maroon and blue decoration, unstratified on rampart (1954).
Probably eighteenth century.

(e) Rhenish Stoneware – Frechen

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One rim sherd from well 2, with part of ‘Bellarmine’ mask, which appears to be of Holmes’ type 111, but only the
upper part of the face survives.

(g) English Stoneware – Nottingham

Typical sherds of at least 15 vessels from various parts of the site, all loose.

POST-MEDIEVAL COARSE WARES

(a) ‘Tudor’ Coarse Ware

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This ware actually lasts well into the seventeenth century (and later for chamber pots), alongside the brown-glazed
red wares. The ware is buff, with a green glaze. One rim of bowl, with thin wall, pinched into lobes (see B Rackham,
Medieval English Pottery, Pl. 44). Unstratified.

Pl. IIIa (left).

Section across

rampart, 1954.

Pl. IIIb (right).
Rampart north
of Castle wall,
showing the
oven, after the
removal of the
retaining wall to
the entrance.

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