It is often highly decorated with applied notched strips, applied strips with circle and cross stamps, incised triangular zones, stamps and rouletting. It is found all across Southern England and shows a different, though parallel tradition to the contemporary Stamford-type wares. York-type pottery is a very hard ware with much grit added, giving a pimply appearance. It is well made on a fast wheel and fired to a high temperature in a developed kiln, although the wide range of colour variations suggest a failure to control the air intake. It appears to have been made from the tenth to mid twelfth centuries.
Forms are similar to other types, although no storage vessels have yet been found.
The types listed above are some of the main types of English pottery in our period. However, hand-made pottery was still being produced locally and good quality pottery was being imported from the continent. No doubt, foreign pottery was used to demonstrate an individuals cosmopolitan nature even then. Illustration Colin Levick and article by Ben Levick January, 1993. Amended by Roland Williamson January, 1999.