Revisiting Buckley in 17th-Century Chesapeake Assemblages

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Imaginaries, Regional Realities: 50 Years of Work in the Chesapeake", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Most archaeologists working in the Chesapeake attribute coarse earthenware characterized by a marbled buff and red paste and dark brown to black glossy glaze to potters working in the town of Buckley in northeast Wales from the 1720s through the late 18th century. Recently, Lindsay Bloch has demonstrated that wares with these characteristics were not made exclusively in Buckley, and has concurred with a few archaeologists from Maryland who have dated its appearance at their sites to the late 17th century. In this paper, I will explore the distribution of Buckley, or “Buckley-type” coarsewares within the Coan Hall Site in Northumberland County, Virginia, and between sites in southern Maryland and the Northern Neck.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
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