Huntcliff ware

Use of the term 'Huntcliff ware' is contentious because it suggests the pottery was manufactured at the Roman signal station[1] on the east coast of Yorkshire.

No kilns have been found for the calcite-gritted ware industry but an East Yorkshire source is suspected on distribution patterns, possibly in the Vale of Pickering.The term Huntcliff-type refers to the report[2] in which this jar was first recognised as a type.

It is a distinctive variety of calcite-gritted ware jar with a curved, everted rim with lid-seated groove, made in East Yorkshire from around AD 360 to the 5th century AD.

A series of poorly executed parallel grooves on the shoulder are characteristic.

The jar forms have handmade bodies and the rim finished on a potter's wheel.