XIX Conclusions Almost no exclusively 17th century artifacts were found at Marlborough; at least, there were very few sherds or objects that could not have originated equally well in the 18th century.
A small group of sherds has a gray-buff paste, more intricately incised than most.
Three sherds of heavy lead glass have the thickness and contours of early 18th-century English decanters, matching more complete fragments from Rosewell and a specimen illustrated in plate 98a in the Wine Trade Loan Exhibition catalog.
It is not surprising, therefore, that 18th-century China-trade porcelainsherds occurred with high incidence at Marlborough.
Thus the Marlborough sherds cannot be excluded from the Mercer period.
Several sherds of stoneware of the type usually ascribed to Nottingham appeared at Marlborough.
One of the Marlborough sherdsis part of a large pan.
Geiger Omwake near the south end of the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal in Delaware included sherds from a context dated late 17th- to mid-18th centuries.
Other small sherds of a similar ware are redder in color and without slip.
In strolling over the site of the old town I have noted its ground plan, and have picked up many sherds which indicate that the pottery made at that place was the fine cream-color ware for which Tusayan has always been famous.
There was found also a fragment of a green glazed cup, which was undoubtedly of Spanish or Mexican make, and sherds of white china similar to that sold today by the traders.
The ornamentation on the few fragments which were found is composed of geometric patterns, and is identical with the sherds from other ruins of Verde valley.
He gave no time for reply, but turning at right angles through a gap threaded his way past piles of pots and sherds until he ran the sound to earth.
A mound ofsherds and dust higher than the gateway of the palace.
Mounds of this period are perhaps most easily recognized by the quantities of deep-blue glazed sherds found lying about on them.
Sherds on the slopes are worth less; as they have probably slipped down.
Wasters were thinly represented among the sherds from Yorktown, although many underfired or overburned pieces were initially claimed as such.
Many of the Williamsburg sherds are both badly overfired and poorly mottled, owing either to inadequate salting or to the use of a slip of the wrong consistency.
On this evidence and on the evidence of unstratified sherds found in the occupation area, it is assumed that the complex had been abandoned by the middle of the 18th century.
In neither instance is it likely that the sherds were serving any practical purpose, and so it is hard to imagine why they would have been taken to these widely distant locations.
Scattered documents bear hints of potters and their activities, and occasional archeological deposits contain the broken sherds and other material evidence of potters' products.
And finally, it should be noted that an unglazed handle fragment, probably from a similar bottle, was among the sherds recovered from the roadway in front of the Digges House.
Finds extending in the direction of the latter break included English white salt-glazed sherds as well as bottle fragments of the second quarter of the 18th century.
Fragments of underfired stoneware bottles were among the most common sherds recovered from the colonial roadway at Yorktown, providing invaluable evidence to aid the identification of the Rogers stoneware body composition and color.
One hundred sherds were collected from each site and studied to identify the pottery types, the sequence of their development, and their relationship to pottery types of other southwestern archeological areas.
Forty-two bowls were reconstructed from the sherds found.
The fabric-marked vases and sherds are obtained from mounds, graves, and village sites all over the country.
From mounds, graves, and dwelling sites, all over the country, vases and sherds are found covered with impressions of these fabrics, and so well preserved that by taking casts in clay or wax entirely satisfactory restorations are made.
A sizable deposit of gravel-tempered sherds was found between the depth of one foot and the level of the cellar floor of the mansion house site (Structure 112) located near the pitch-and-tar swamp.
No gravel-tempered sherds occur in contexts that can positively be dated prior to 1675.
This evidence was found in the form of sherds exhibited in a display window of C.
Body sherd and handle sherds at Jamestown, from additional oven or ovens.
Further evidence in the form of 17th-century sherds was found by Charbonnier around the site of the North Walk pottery in Barnstaple.
It is significant, in the light of this, that North Devon pansherds in the Williamsburg collection have characteristics like those of specimens from other 18th-century sites.
There were many hundreds of sherds in the fill under and around the brick drain, as well as in other ditches in the site.
The sherds were doubtless part of the household equipment of the time.
Two smallsherds of North Devon gravel-tempered ware were found there in a predominantly mid-18th-century deposit.
Few of the North Devon sherds found can be closely dated, having occurred primarily in undocumented ditches, pits, and similar deposits.
Some geometrical sherds were found beneath the floor, a fact which shows that the sanctuary had been in use somewhat earlier.
The great majority of the sherds found in the ruins of the citadel were of that monochrome type which has been met with elsewhere on the west coast of Greece (Leucas, Olympia, etc.
Some sherdsof the same type were found in the tombs together with the remains of Mycenean vases.
While some three-fourths of the observed fictile ware of the Seri and a still larger proportion of the scattered sherds represent conventional ollas, there are a few erratic forms.
Two occurrences of association in a stone mound with plain or brushed limestone-tempered sherds were also noted.
Such sherds as these are to be found on every site, mediaeval or modern, in Mesopotamia, and do not offer any conclusive evidence as to date.
The existing ruin mounds, standing upon the brink of the Sea of Nedjef, are covered with the sherds of mediaeval pottery.
Oh, if my very broken sherdscould serve to glorify Him!
For the most part they are composed of sherds of Samian ware, occasionally, of jet, and of amber; at Carvoran are some of rude shape, made of imperfectly burnt clay and shale.
A comparison of sherdsfrom colonial sites with wares used by the English and of English origin indicates that similar types of equipage were to be found upon tea tables in both countries.
Blue and white china was, perhaps, the most popular type of teaware, for it regularly appears in newspaper advertisements and inventories and among sherds from colonial sites (fig.
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