Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note in black ink found with objects reads: 'Rhenish Stoneware. Bardorf, near Pingsdorf S.W. Cologne. Kilns operating 9th-13th. centuries.'
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten label in black ink found with objects reads: '9th-13th A.D. Kiln at Bardof [near Pingsdorf] to S.W. of Cologne W. Germany (Pingsdorf Ware).'
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (Field collection)
Found: Kiln at Bardorf, near Pingsdorf, South West of Cologne
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Pingsdorf ware pottery sherds. Seven jug bases with pinched-out junction to side-wall. A rim of a jug and of a bowl, both undecorated. Four rims of jugs, three with small strap-handles and one with a short spout. Of these, three are decorated with red paint. Eleven miscellaneous body sherds with wavy or zig-zag bands or dashes, done in rough brush-strokes with brownish-red paint. One plain undecorated body sherd marked with paste. The paste is hard and well-fixed, it varies in colour from grey to yellowish to cream.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
This ware was common in the Rhineland in south west Cologne, from around 9th to 13th century AD.
Event Date 1961
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
25 sherds of Pingsdorf ware. Six rim sherds: three with small, everted rim, short, constricted neck and small, flat, strap handle running from rim to body; one with small everted rim, short, constricted neck and a short, cylindrical spout below rim; one of a bowl with everted rim; one of a jug with everted rim and long neck. Seven base sherds of foortring base with thumbed impressions along the edge. Twelve body sherds. Many sherds decorated with red brown paint.
Event Date 14/2/2024
Author: Danlei Zhou