York Archaeology Online Collections

Items

• York Glazed Ware Cistern Seal
  Body fragment of York Glazed Ware cistern with seal. The fragment has a mottled green glaze. It is decorated with a circular stamped seal with a symbol or image in the centre.
• York Glazed Ware Cistern
  Two rim fragments of York Glazed Ware cisterns. Both fragments have green glaze and have been decorated with bands of an impressed waffle pattern. One fragment also has a twisted clay motif around the rim.
• Humber Ware Cistern
  Reconstructed rim and body fragment of Humber Ware cistern with green-brown glaze. There are two thumb impressions on either side of both ends of the remains of the handle which help to secure it to the body of the cistern.
• Humber Ware Cistern
  Reconstructed rim, handle and body fragment of Humber Ware cistern with green-brown glaze. There are two thumb impressions on either side of both ends of the handle which help to secure it to the body of the cistern. At the top of the body are some decorative lines of rouletting.
• Hambleton Ware Cistern
  Partially complete, reconstructed Hambleton Ware cistern. The cistern has a mottled green glaze and two handles. It is decorated with three bands of wavy combing around the shoulders of the vessel, and pinching around the rim.
• Heworth-type Earthenware Cistern
  Reconstructed rim and handle fragment of Heworth-type Earthenware cistern. The fragment has green-brown glaze. The remains of the handle is attached at the rim, and is of the typical folded style.
• Ryedale Ware Cistern
  Reconstructed rim and body fragment of Ryedale Ware cistern with green glaze. The fragment has the remains of one handle. This has one large thumb impression at the end which remains intact, which helped to secure the handle to the body of the cistern.
• Ryedale Ware Cistern
  Reconstructed body fragment of Ryedale Ware cistern with green-brown glaze. The bung hole of the cistern can be seen in this fragment. It would have been close to the base in the complete vessel.
• Humber Ware Cistern
  Partially complete, reconstructed Humber Ware cistern with green-yellow glaze. The glaze on this cistern is only on the top third of the vessel but has been splashed or dripped further down the body in some areas. The neck has been decorated with bands of rouletting and the handle has been secured to the rim and body with large thumb impressions. The lower part of the body appears to be blackened with soot.
• Hambleton Ware Cistern
  Partially complete, reconstructed Hambleton Ware cistern with mottled green glaze. The cistern has been decorated with pinching around the rim and a wavy line just below, four bands of parallel lines of rouletting with wavy lines impressions between them, and small pads of clay creating curved lines. It also has the remains of a handle.