Stamford
(ˈstæmfəd)
The name of a town in Lincolnshire, used attrib., as Stamford ware Archæol., a kind of Saxo-Norman lead-glazed pottery made of estuarine clay from the vicinity of Stamford.
| 1956 G. C. Dunning in D. B. Harden Dark-Age Britain iii. 230 The term ‘Stamford ware’ may be proposed for the lead-glazed pottery of fine quality of the late Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods, provided it is clearly understood that this is a generic term for pottery made of..specific clays but at more than one centre within the area. 1956 Proc. Cambridge Antiquarian Soc. XLIX. 48 Saxo-Norman glaze only occurs on this Stamford ware. 1962 [see lead-glazing vbl. n. s.v. lead n.1 12]. 1974 M. Ingate Sound of Weir xx. 172 Stamford ware made from 900 to the 13th century from middle Jurassic esturine clay. |