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Embossed Edgeware, 1820s - 1830s

Unless stated otherwise, all vessels shown are plates. If no reference is given under molded motif,
then name has been assigned by MAC Lab Staff.

Bull's Head Tavern (18BC139)
Brick privy (Feature 9)
c. 1800 - 1830
Feathers Grass & Daisies Cord & Tassel or Cord
& hanging fern (Majewski & O'Brien 1987:149)
Stylized Foliage Dot & Leafy Swag

Cord & Tassel or Cord
& hanging fern (Majewski & O'Brien 1987:149)
(Showing pattern in Poor Relief)
Fish Scale & Feathers
(McAllister 2001:33)		 Dot & Acanthus Swag with Cornucopias & Shells (McAllister 2001:44)
H & S Bakery (18BC32)
Feature 20 � Brick-lined privy
Early to mid-19th century
Edgedware fragment with blue Wavy Grass pattern - click to see larger image.   Edgedware fragment with blue Bead and feather pattern - click to see larger image.

Wavy Grass

  

Bead and feather

Ruth Saloon (18BC79)
Brick-lined privy (Feature R-5)
c. 1829-1837
Cord & Herringbone
(Majewski& O'Brien 1987:149)		 Fish Scale & Feathers
(McAllister 2001:33)		 Dot & Garland
Federal Reserve (18BC27)
Mid-19th century

Privy Pit (Feature 36))

Privy Pit (Feature 30)

Privy Pit (Feature 31)

Embossed shell-edged plate with embossed grapevine rim.
Dotted Impressed Bars Grapevine

Rousby (18ST751)
Plowzone
Mid-19th century scatter

Hanley

Collected by George L. Miller in 1986 in Hanley. 
Cannot be attributed to a specific pottery.
Edged bowl with molded beaded rim - Collected by George L. Miller in 1986 in Hanley. Cannot be attributed to a specific pottery.
Raised Ovals

Edged bowl with molded beaded rim.

 
Private Collection
Surface Find, Waldo County, ME

U.S. Route 15 - #2 (18FR150)
Recovered from Shovel Test in 19th-20th
century artifact concentration
Image of Dot & Grass embossed plate sherds Thumbnail image links to a large image when clicked on. Image of sherd with "Chicken Foot" design in blue. Thumbnail image links to a large image when clicked on.
Dot and Grass Chicken Foot

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Edgedware fragment with blue Wavy Grass pattern - click to see larger image. Edgedware fragment with blue Bead and feather pattern - click to see larger image. Copyright © 2002 by Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab
Updated:  10/31/16 Whiteware banded bowl with offset floral decoration - from 18BC27. Pearlware quart mug with trailed slip decoration. Attributed to Enoch Wood & Sons, Staffordshire, c. 1830. 6 inches in height - from a private collection. Detail from London shape bowl with trailed slip. Tulip decoration is common to many types of slipware, but rare on dipped wares - from a private collection.