Figure 17 Industrial or factory-made
slipwares, Enoch Wood & Sons, Burslem, ca. 1835. Whiteware. (Courtesy,
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery; photo, David Barker.) These fragments
were recovered from a large town-center waste dump at Burslem Market Place.
Although these types of low-priced wares were made by many manufacturers,
it is unusual to be able to attribute them to a specific maker. Their discovery
here with a mass of marked wares confirms their manufacture by Enoch Wood
& Sons, and the archaeological context in which they were found dates
them to circa 1835. |