Gloucester pottery fabric type series

Fabric: Characteristic inclusions are "Malvernian" rock fragments, usually granitic (quartz, feldspar and mica) and occasional sand grains. Handmade or Wheel-thrown, reduced or oxidised.
Form: usually straight-sided cooking pots, some large vessels may be 'curfews' used to keep the 'fire in' at night but these are very rare, twelfth-fourteenth century. There is a typological and technical change in the thirteenth century: earlier vessels are handmade with irregular everted rims, later vessels are also handmade but with regular, wheel-finished rims usually inturned. Fourteenth century vessels are usually Wheel-thrown.
Date: 12th-14th cent.
Source: regional / Herefordshire and Worcs /

TF40: Reference sample