Historic Jamestowne’s Senior Curator, Merry A. Outlaw and Curator, Leah Stricker, discuss the pottery artifacts found during recent excavations outside the Church Tower on Jamestown Island. They also compare these recently uncovered artifacts with other North Devon Sgraffito Slipware ceramics and explain how knowing the form and decorations of these beautiful ceramics can date the pottery to the middle or late 1600s This conversation also draws upon Merry Outlaw’s previous publication (“Scratched in Clay: Seventeenth-Century North Devon Slipware at Jamestown, Virginia") published in the 2002 edition of Ceramics in America which may be viewed at:

http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/...


The video draws on two previous Dig Deeper Episodes discussing the archaeology of the site where the pottery was found:

"The Church Tower Dig, Part I: A Mysterious Fire - Dig Deeper, Episode 35"
   • The Church Tower Dig, Part I: A Myste...  

"The Church Tower Dig, Part II: Telling Time with Artifacts - Dig Deeper, Episode 36"
   • The Church Tower Dig, Part II: Tellin...  

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