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Dartford District Archaeological Group (DDAG)
The Christopher St John Breen Medieval Pottery Archive
An aid to identifying sherds from excavations

   Individual fabrics are listed below, in roughly date order, with the codes used by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) Pottery Specialists at the London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre (LAARC). Click on each link to see pictures of sherds of individual fabrics. See Introduction to Pottery Archive.
   The majority of these sherds were typed over twenty years ago, and since then knowledge of the fabrics and their dating may have been modified, so please if you feel that any description is incorrect, please let us know at localhistory@tedconnell.org.uk so that we can amended our information. Suggested reading
   System of plastic boxes and trays for storing and displaying for handling Medieval sherds
   We are now extending (2012) the range of material by including pictures of sherds from excavations throughout Kent, particularly from the Canterbury Archaeological Trust to better reflect the differing fabrics of all dates from London and Kent
   Pictures of fabrics only all together

LSS-CP STAM-PTCH ESUR REDP-BKR EMFL EMSS-CP EMCH-CP EMSH-CP BLGR-CP ANDE-PTCH NORM-J	Late Saxon Shelly ware Cooking Pot STAMford Ware – PiTCHer Early SURrey Ware RED Painted Ware - BeaKeR Early Medieval Flint-Tempered Early Medieval Sand Shell-Tempered - Cooking Pot Early Medieval CHalk-Tempered Cooking Pot Early Medieval Shelly - Cooking Pot BLue GRey Ware - Cooking Pot ANDEnne Ware, French - PiTCHer NORMandy Gritty Ware - Jug	900–1150 900–1050 950–1150 950–1250 1000–1100 1000–1150 1050–1150 1050–1150 1000–1200 1050–1200 1050–1250
EM1 EM2 EM2A EM3A EM32 EM35 EM35A EM35B EM35C EM46 EM48 EM31 EM36 EM36A EM36B EM36C EM4 EM.M5 EM21 EM22 EM28 EM29 M38 M38A M38A1 M38A2 M38A3 M38B M38C	Canterbury Archaeological Trust Fabrics Canterbury sandy ware Fine shelly ware Shell-filled with iron oxide inclusions Miscellaneous Shelly-Sandy Ware Coarse flint and shell with sparse quartz ware N.W. Kent shell-tempered (=EMSH) N.W. Kent shell-tempered N.W. Kent shell-tempered N.W. Kent shell-tempered Sandy ware with sparse/moderate quartz and flint, no shell N.W. Kent shell-tempered, fine sandy ware ?Kentish coarse sandy ware with moderate shell N.W. Kent shelly-sandy ware N.W. Kent shelly-sandy ware, sparse/moderate sand, abundant shell) N.W. Kent shelly-sandy ware, moderate/abundant shell, moderate medium sand N.W. Kent shelly-sandy ware, abundant coarse sand West Kent fine sandy ware Ashford Potter's Corner sandy ware with fossil shell West Kent fine sandy with shell and sparse grits N.W. Kent fine sandy with sparse shell and sparse grits Kentish sandy ware with shell and sparse flint Kentish sandy ware with flint and sparse shell N.W. Kent greyware N.W. Kent sandy ware (mainly reduced, abundant fine sand) N.W. Kent sandy ware (abundant fine sand, sometimes sparse shell; can be h/made N.W. Kent sandy ware (moderate medium sand) N.W. Kent sandy ware (highly fired, as CM38C?) N.W. Kent fine-moderate sandy ware (Dartford 'rilled' ware) N.W. Kent hard-fired fine sandy ware localhistory@tedconnell.org.uk	1050-1225 1050-1225 1050-1225 850-1225 1050-1225 1050-1225 1050-1225 1050-1225 1050-1225 1050-1250 1050-1250 1100-1200 1100-1250 1100-1250 1100-1250 1100-1250 1125-1250 1125-1250 1125-1250 1125-1225 1175-1350 1125-1250 1125-1400 1125-1400 1125-1250 1170-1350 1300-1400 1225-1400 1325-1400
SSW-CP LCOAR-J LIMP SHER-CP ROUE ROUL LOND NBYC NFM SCAR KING-CP KING-PIP MG-J SAIN-J SAIN-PEGAU SAIN-PG-J SIEG CBW-CP CBW-J CBW-BL CBW-LCUP LCGR-J LANG-SJ DUTR-CAUL CHEA	Shelly-Sandy Ware - Cooking Pot COARse London Type Ware - Jug Limpsfield Ware South HERts Ware - Cooking Pot ROUEn ware-Jug - Early ROULn ware-Jug - Late LONDon Type ware NewBurY group C North French Monochrome - Jug SCARborough Ware KINGston Ware - Cooking Pot KINGston Ware - PIPkin Mill Green ware - Jug SAINtonge Ware - Jug SAINtonge Ware - PEGAU SAINtonge Ware - Polychrome - Jug SIEGburg Stoneware - Drinking Jug Coarse Border Ware - Cooking Pot Coarse Border Ware - Jug Coarse Border Ware - BowL Coarse Border Ware - Lobed CUP Low Countries GRey Ware - Jug 1 BS LANGerwehe Stone ware - Storage Jar DUTch Red earthenware - CAULdron CHEAm whiteware	1140–1220 1150–1200 1150–1300 1170–1350 1170–1300 1250–1350 1180–1350 1150–1350 1170–1300 1200–1350 1230–1350 1230–1350 1270–1350 1250–1500 1250–1500 1280–1500 1300–1500 1350–1500 1350–1500 1350–1500 1380–1500 1350–1500 1350–1500 1300–1500 1350–1500

Post – Medieval
FREC
BORD-BL

FREChen Ware
BORDer Ware - BowL

1550–1700
1550–1750

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