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throughout colontal Nonh America in IIX hcwveeenIh anw (Gnnt 1983: 1. 12). A
typical (hut not ubiquitous) feature of vvcnleenthcenlw North Devoa wmn is the
rrndfied color within the badier of morr vessels. This telltde characteristic was panially
due to the prxtice of stacking Ihe pats upride down in the kiln. thus causing a lack of
oxygen in the pot interion. What followed w u an oxygen-poor (reduced) envimnment
inside the vessels, msulting in the incomplele oxidation of the clay. The fired vcrwlr are
had wilh an orange. red, or bmwn erteriw and a grey interior (Grant 19825 1-52). It
would vppem tha an erepion to thin m the smaller. finely Ihmwn vesxlr from Renews.
particularly the drinkingcups. bhof thecups was completely oridizedand Irked the
grey intcnor. Mort oi OK Nonh Devan wam imm Rcncws were glmed on Ihe interior
with many vessels displaying lrails of glaze down k ir exteriors. The Nonh Devan
potrely forms from Renews consisted of (in order of frqucney) storage pats (bah slender
and glohulm-shaped). drinking cups, cooking pars, porringers. a galley pat and a
rgrafitto-decorated plate.
Two other English vessels were mmufactd in Somenet county. likely in Denyart.
mother Wesl Country center fm seventeenthcentury ceramic pmductim (Coleman-
Smich and Pemon 1988:xvii). The South Somervt galley pat and drinking cup were
well-made. each with just an inurioc amber, or brow gk. 'The only other vessel oI
cenvin English manufzcam wu n small jug, which wu paa~ibly used for saw. Ir was
one of vanety of white-bodiedearthenwues made in Suney. Hamphire, Famham and