New Forest ware
Reference code
MAY/02/12
Title
New Forest ware
Date
c.1900-31
Level of description
File
Extent and format
1 file
Scope and content
Bundle of 24 files of mainly handwritten notes, diagrams and photographs including a small ring bound note and sketch book of Roman and Saxon pottery from York, Leicester, Colchester, Corbridge, Peterborough, Blackgate, Lincoln, South Shields, also notes on mediaeval pottery, miscellaneous small finds from Richborough Castle and Silchester, handwritten article on Castor ware by E.J. Artis. Also notes on plump beakers, bulbous beakers, various notes on New Forest ware. Notes on triple vases, drawings of flagon neck and handles from Corbridge (Collingwood), mortar bowls from Pevensey excavations, potters stamps on mortar bowls from Carlisle and Richborough.
Creator
May, Thomas (d 1931), archaeologist and civil servant
System of arrangement
Sections numbered 1-23.