. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 6.—Gravel-tempered oven of the 17th or early i8th century, acquired in Bideford. {USNM 3945°5-) Figure 7.—Gravel-tempered oven from 17th-century house on Bideford Quay. Borough of Bideford Public Library and Museum. {Photo by A. C. Littlejohm.) Not only was coastwise trade in earthenware main- tained throughout the 18th century but it was con- tinued, in fact, until the final decline of the potteries at the turn of the present century. Although great antiquity attaches to the origins of North Devon pottery manufacture—Barnstaple has h
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 6.—Gravel-tempered oven of the 17th or early i8th century, acquired in Bideford. {USNM 3945°5-) Figure 7.—Gravel-tempered oven from 17th-century house on Bideford Quay. Borough of Bideford Public Library and Museum. {Photo by A. C. Littlejohm.) Not only was coastwise trade in earthenware main- tained throughout the 18th century but it was con- tinued, in fact, until the final decline of the potteries at the turn of the present century. Although great antiquity attaches to the origins of North Devon pottery manufacture—Barnstaple has had its Crock Street for 450 years ^°—the principal evidence of early manufacture falls into the second half of the 17th century. We have seen that a grow- ing America provided an increasing market for North Devon's ceramic wares. In 1668 Crocker's pottery was established at Bideford, and it is in the period following that Bideford's importance as a pottery center becomes noticeable. Crocker's was operated until 1896, its dated 17th-century kilns then still intact after producing wares that varied little during all of the pottery's 228 years of existence.^' In Barnstaple the oldest pottery to survive until modern times was situated in the North Walk. When it was dismantled in 1900, sherds dating from the second half of the 17th century were found in the surroundings, as was a potter's guild sign, dated 3" T. M. Hall, "On Barum Tobacco-Pipes and North Devon Clays," Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association Jor the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, Devon, 1890, vol. 22, pp. 317-323. " T. Charbonnier, "Notes on North Devon Pottery of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries," Report and Transactions oj the Devonshire Association for the Advancement 0/ Science, Literature, and Art, Devon, 1906, vol. 38, p. 255. 1675, which now hangs in Brannam's pottery in Litchdon Street, Barnstaple. A pair of fire dogs, da
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