Dartford District Archaeological Group - The Christopher St John Breen Medieval Pottery Archive
Pictures of sherds of medieval pottery recovered from the Billingsgate Dumps in 1984

ESUR      Early SURrey Ware         950 – 1150

Picture of Rim Sherd of Early Surrey Ware (Background grid to pictures in cm squares)

Picture of fabric of Sherd of Early Surrey Ware pictured above

Picture of Rim Sherd of Early Surrey Ware (Background grid to pictures in cm squares)

Picture of fabric of Sherd of Early Surrey Ware pictured above

Picture of tray of Early Surrey Ware sherds

A detailed description of the fabric can be found on page 73 of The Saxon and Early Medieval Pottery of London
   by Alan Vince and Annie Jenner pages 19-119, in Aspects of Saxo-Norman London: II Finds and Environmental
   Evidence. London & Middlesex Archaeological Society Special Paper 12. 1991 

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 information is incorrect, please let us know at localhistory@tedconnell.org.uk so that we can amended our information.

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