. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ,/; £8Rg*. ^*s Figure 11.—An underfired Yorktown "stoneware" bottle, discarded about 1765. Found in Williamsburg. Surviving height centimeters. handle rugged and tidily shaped into a finger-im- pressed rattail terminal. The handle can, perhaps, be faulted, in that it will accommodate only two fingers with comfort, and it is a little wider in proportion to its size than any I have seen in England. The iron- oxide slip which extends to the midsection of the bodv is well mottled and predominantly of good color. Ignoring the unde
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ,/; £8Rg*. ^*s Figure 11.—An underfired Yorktown "stoneware" bottle, discarded about 1765. Found in Williamsburg. Surviving height centimeters. handle rugged and tidily shaped into a finger-im- pressed rattail terminal. The handle can, perhaps, be faulted, in that it will accommodate only two fingers with comfort, and it is a little wider in proportion to its size than any I have seen in England. The iron- oxide slip which extends to the midsection of the bodv is well mottled and predominantly of good color. Ignoring the underfiring, this bottle may be classed as a very creditable piece of potting, seemingly quite od a most such vessels turned out by English potters in the mid-18th Globular-bodied jars with everted collarlike mouths ': Iln' majority ol archeologicall) documented pieces have been recovered from English domestic sites and not from kiln dumps. can be proved to have been made at Yorktown on the evidence of a few small under- and over-fired sherds recovered from the old road metaling in front of the Digges House. The best example recovered from a dated archeological context in Virginia is ajar found in a rubbish deposit of about 1763-1772 at the plantation of Rosewell in Gloucester But like the well-fired bottles, its Yorktown provenance cannot yet be proved. The last major category of kitchen stoneware believed to have been made .it the Yorktown pottn\ "I. Noii Hume, "Excavations at Rosewell, Gloucestei County, Virginia, 1957 1959," papei 18 in Contributions from the Museum oj History and Technology Papers 12-18, I S National Museum Bulletin 225, by various authors; Washing- ton, Smithsonian Institution, 1963), p. L'n,'!, no. 3 .md p. 209, fig. 28, no. !. 98 BULLETIN 249: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabilit
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