Stoneware Sherd
Salt-glazed stoneware
A heavy grey fragment with a pitted, orange-peel glaze from old crocks and jugs.
- Typical size
- 0.5–3 in
- How often it turns up
- Uncommon
- Collecting
- Check local rules
- Handling
- Safe to handle
Report anything from a known historic site rather than collecting it.
How to tell it apart
- Grey body with a glassy pitted glaze
- Heavier and denser than earthenware
- Sometimes cobalt blue decoration
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