YAR - Yarmouth-type ware

Handmade body with wheelmade rim, adundant fine to medium sand, raised and clearly visible in the surface, with variable quantities of fine to medium shell. Hard. Variable colours but usually oxidised dark purple-red/brown surfaces and grey core. (Mellor 1976 Fullers Hill, Great Yarmouth Fabric 3/1; Jennings 1981).

TS sample description (Patrick Quinn): Rounded medium and coarse sand-sized inclusions of quartz, shell and rare polycrystalline quartz, iron-stained chert and ferruginous inclusions. The shell exists mainly as elongate rounded micritic calcite inclusions which can exhibit lamination. It is likely to be of fossil origin. The sand may be temper, whereas the sparse, more angular silt-sized inclusions of quartz, chert, muscovite mica and opaque iron were intrinsic. Non-vitrified non-calcareous clay matrix that is oxidised on one edge. Common meso-elongate voids and ring voids around the calcareous inclusions. The shell material is related to that in Sample 9 (EMWSS).

Example from Stoke Quay, Ipswich.