Moyaone Ware
Period: European Contact Defining Attributes: Moyaone is a Late Woodland to European Contact ware, characterized by compact paste, fine grained sand temper, soft texture, and smoothed interior and exterior surfaces. Defined types […]
Gaston Ware
Period: European Contact Defining Attributes: Gaston Ware, represented by one type, simple stamped, has angular to subangular quartztemper 2 to 5 mm in diameter in a clayey, compact paste. Finger pinched, incised, […]
Hercules Ware
Period: Late Woodland Defining Attributes: Hercules Ware is an undecorated late Middle Woodland pottery with contorted paste, tempered with large pieces of crushed quartz, granite, or gneiss with mainly a wicker-fabric-impressed surface […]
Courtland Ware
Period: European Contact Defining Attributes: Courtland Ware, dating from the historic period, is thin pottery pattern after European vessel shapes. The paste is compact with only silt as inclusive material. Exterior surfaces […]
Croaker Landing Ware
Period: Early Woodland Defining Attributes: Croaker Landing Ware is one of the earliest pottery in Virginia and dates from the Early Woodland. Surface treatment is mainly plain and some cord markings. The […]
Chesterfield Ware
Period: Middle Woodland Defining Attributes: Chesterfield Ware is fine sandtempered, knotted-net or cord-marked, oxidized-fired Middle Woodland pottery Chronology: Mouer and McLearen (1987) believe the ware dates to the period ca. 100 BCE to […]
Colono Indian Ware
Period: European Contact Defining Attributes: Colono Indian Ware is a clayey-paste, shelltempered, plainsurface pottery that displays European vessel shapes. Chronology: Colono-Indian Ware dates from the last quarter of the 17th century to the […]
Camden Ware
Period: European Contact Defining Attributes: Camden Ware, dating from the historic period, is thin pottery pattern after European vessel shapes. The paste is compact with only silt as inclusive material. Exterior surfaces […]
Bushnell Ware
Period: Early Woodland Defining Attributes: Bushnell Ware, consisting of the single type Bushnell Plain, is one of the earliest pottery in Virginia and dates from 1200 to1000 BCE. The type is characterized […]
Accokeek Ware
Period: Middle Woodland Defining Attributes: Accokeek is an Early Woodland ware that is sand tempered and/or crushed- quartz tempered with cord-marked exterior surfaces. Chronology: Stephenson (1963) inferred a Middle Woodland date for the […]
