medieval archaeology emerge from St John’s Square Perth

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ARO21: Brief encounters: watching the medieval archaeology emerge from St John’s Square, Perth Figure 12: Pottery Catalogue Nos 21-42 (Scale 1:2.5). Low Countries Redwares There are only four sherds of this ware (Figure 12, Cat.41) from three trenches across the site (Cat.41). This fabric begins to replace the earlier Low Countries greywares from the midfourteenth century onwards (Verhaege 1983, 25). The best groups of this material from previous work in Perth are from the Marks and Spencer site at 75 High Street and Meal Vennel excavations (Cox 1996b). The illustrated sherd is a rod handle from a jug. Rhenish Stoneware Only one sherd in this assemblage has been identified as Rhenish Stoneware. These distinctive and very hard-fired fabrics began to be imported into Scotland in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (Hurst et al. 1986) as jugs. The fabric is dark grey in colour and covered in a grey salt glaze internally and externally. 24 © Archaeology Reports Online, 2016. All rights reserved.
ARO21: Brief encounters: watching the medieval archaeology emerge from St John’s Square, Perth Figure 13: Pottery Catalogue Nos 43-47 (Scale 1:4). Other Stonewares This assemblage of five pieces (Figure 13, Cat.46 and 47) includes two complete large jugs or flagons which date from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. One is marked with the number ‘4’, which is made from stamped holes and presumably indicates a consignment number. Catalogue 48 is stamped a fraser dundee. Both were found in Trench 67 (PEX 59). Unidentified The small group of 35 unidentified sherds (Table 2, Cat.43-45) are all likely to be from imported fabrics, potentially of northern English origin. Discussion This relatively small assemblage contains some examples of vessels in both the local Redware and imported Yorkshire Type wares. It is very striking that there are no examples of the twelfth-century imported fabrics which were recovered from the King Edward Street excavations on the northern High Street frontage of part of this area (Hall 1995, 952-5). If anything, the presence of the Yorkshire Type wares would imply that no deposits earlier than the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries were recovered from the watching briefs. The imported Low Countries Redwares and the Rhenish Stoneware, as well as the Yorkshire Types wares, indicate the importance of sea-borne trade across the North Sea and up the east coast of the British Isles in the medieval period. These quality wares were imported into Perth and may well have influenced the development and production of the redware industry in Scotland (Hall et al. 2012, 17, 70). The Metalwork A moderately large and diverse assemblage of artefacts was recovered during the investigation of this site. Included among the assemblage are organic materials, preserved in the favourable anaerobic conditions within extensive midden deposits and pit fills. The artefacts are discussed below by material category, and a brief overall discussion of the value of the artefact evidence follows the material-specific discussions. Measurements are expressed to the nearest 1 mm. © Archaeology Reports Online, 2016. All rights reserved. 25
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