. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 2.—Sketch of sherd of sgraffito-ware dish, dating about 1670, that was found during excava- tions of C. H. Brannam's pottery in Barnstaple. (Sketch by Mrs. Constance Christian, from photo.) lamestown, is of similar paste and quality of temper. It has a roughly oval beehive shape with a trapezoidal framed opening in which a pottery door fits snugly. Following the initial discoveries at Jamestown there was considerable speculation about these two types. Worth Bailey, then museum technician at Jamestown, was the first to recognize the so
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 2.—Sketch of sherd of sgraffito-ware dish, dating about 1670, that was found during excava- tions of C. H. Brannam's pottery in Barnstaple. (Sketch by Mrs. Constance Christian, from photo.) lamestown, is of similar paste and quality of temper. It has a roughly oval beehive shape with a trapezoidal framed opening in which a pottery door fits snugly. Following the initial discoveries at Jamestown there was considerable speculation about these two types. Worth Bailey, then museum technician at Jamestown, was the first to recognize the source of the sgraffito ware as ''Devonshire.'" Henry Chandlee Forman, asserting that such ware was "undoubtedly made in England," felt that it "derives its inspiration from Majolica ware . . especially that of the early Renaissance period from ; ^ Bailey also noted that the oven and the gravel- tempered utensils were made of identical clay and temper. However, in an attempt to prove that earthenware was produced locally, he assumed, per- haps because of their crudeness, that the utensils were made at Jamestown. This led him to con- jecture that the oven, ha\ing similar ceramic qualities. was also a local product. He felt in support of this that it was doubtful "so fragile an object could have survived a perilous sea ;^ Since these opinions were expressed, much further archcological work in colonial sites has revealed widespread distribution of the two types. Bailey himself noted that a pottery oven is intact and in place in the John Bowne House in Flushing, Long Island. A fragment of another pottery oven recently has been identified among the artifacts excavated by Sidney Strickland from the site of the John Howland House, near Plymouth, Massachusetts; and gravel- tempered utensil sherds have occurred in many sites. The sgraffito ware has been unearthed in Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts. Such a wide distribution of either
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