Stamfordn.
/ˈstamfəd/ Used attributively, as Stamford ware n. Archaeology a kind of Saxo-Norman lead-glazed pottery made of estuarine clay from the vicinity of Stamford.
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Thetford ware1949
Stamford ware1956
1956 G. C. Dunning in D. B. Harden Dark-Age Britain iii. 230 The term ‘Stamford ware’ may be proposed for the lead-glazed pottery of fine quality of the late Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods, provided it is clearly understood that this is a generic term for pottery made of..specific clays but at more than one centre within the area.
1956 Proc. Cambridge Antiquarian Soc. 49 48 Saxo-Norman glaze only occurs on this Stamford ware.
1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. iii. 110 The so-called Stamford ware, utilizing a type of lead-glazing that may have originated in the Netherlands, appears to have spread from East Anglia.
1974 M. Ingate Sound of Weir xx. 172 Stamford ware made from 900 to the 13th century from middle Jurassic esturine clay.
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