Late Medieval Pottery on Dutch Shipwrecks and a Well-Dated Inventory of the Early 15th Century

This paper comprises an overview and comparison of the pottery and other artefacts found on board late medieval shipwrecks, excavated in the reclaimed land of the former inland-sea in the centre of the Netherlands1. It describes a well- dated assemblage of artefacts found in a small cog wrecked in the early 15th century, and the inventory of the standard galley utensils, cooking-pots and pans used on board late medieval ships, and it briefly outlines the difficulties of recording these objects according to the type of classification used for 19th-century cargo-vessels of the Zuider Zee.