It is wheel thrown and fired in a kiln. It appears to date to the tenth and eleventh centuries. Forms include cooking pots and pitchers or storage vessels. Lincoln-type pottery has only been found in Lincoln. It is a hard, sandy ware, similar to Thetford-type ware but fired to a higher temperature giving a metallic finish, varying in colour from dark grey to orange.
Forms known are globular cooking pots and straight sided bowls with coarse rouletting.
Michelmersh ware is a smooth brown sandy ware, dating to the tenth or eleventh century. It was wheel thrown and fired in a single flue kiln. Northampton ware is a hard, sandy ware varying in colour from grey to brown. Found only in Northampton, forms are mainly cooking pots. Porchester-type pottery is a hard sandy ware, tempered with finely crushed flint grit, wheel thrown and fired to a reddish or brown surface.