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Table 8, Continued. Minimum Vessel Estimate, Non-Indian Pottery.
SMALL POT OR LIDDED BOWL
Unknown man/lacture
CREAMPANS
JUG
1 Wlglazed coarse eanhenware
Unknown manufacture
4 brown glazed eanhenware
English manufacture
1British brown stoneware
UNIDENTIFIED VESSELS
English manufacture
2 yellow slipware
1 brown glazed cream colored ware
1refined agateware
1plain delftware
Unknown manufacture
1gray salt glazed stoneware
1glazed redware
1 brown glazed coarse eanhenware
Pottery plates were uncommon on the site. Most food during the early eighteenth
century was consumed in bowls among the middle and lower classes. Plates were not
common until after the mid-eighteenth century and, even then, plates remained uncommon
on sites occupied by lower class colonists. Pewter plates and wooden trenchers also were
used for food service, but both are rarely found on archaeological sites. Pewter was
recycled because of its value, and wooden trenchers are rarely preserved in a site because
the wood decayed
Indian Pottery. Indian pottery was found in all midden excavation levels and in nine
features. In Levels 2 through 7 it was the dominant ware. More than 80 percent of the
pottery was found below Level 2. Indian pots at Mount Pleasant were of two forms--jars
and bowls. Jars probably were used for storing foods, while bowls were used mostly as
cooking and serving containers. The vast majority of the pottery sherds found were not
decorated. Some vessels were decorated by brushing or scraping, incising, punctating, or
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