18th Century Slipware Recovered in Canada and Off the Coast of New Castle, New Hampshire

As I noted in a post also from today, the variety of Colonial ceramics recovered off the coast of New Castle, New Hampshire by Ray Demers and his son John is remarkable. In fact, it was incredible to witness and hold much of this collection last weekend.

However, two days ago, I posted an article that displayed a black and white image of an English slipware earthenware dish recovered within a mid-eighteenth century archaeological context at the Fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. I also wrote that the artifact was not exact, but it was similar to the remains of another eighteenth century English slipware dish found by archaeologists in the 1980s inside a privy at the site of the Three Cranes Tavern in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Nevertheless, it would seem that this type of production was shipped throughout Colonial New England - whereas, this sherd was included in the collection of objects that I studied last weekend at the New Castle Historical Society. Its production appears closely related to the the dishes found at the Fortress of Louisbourg and in Charlestown.

Slipware Recovered in Canada and Off the Coast of New Castle, NH

18th Slipware Earthenware Dish

Found off the Coast of New Castle, NH

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Photo Courtesy: New Castle Historical Society

Mid-18th Slipware Earthenware Dish

Probably Made in Staffordshire, England

Excavated at the Fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia

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Photo Courtesy: Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, Parks Canada

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