To: Amy Goode and List colleagues
 
Re: Starred costrels.
 
From the Basque shipwreck in Red Bay (the galleon sunk in 1565 in Red Bay,
Labrador),  we recovered a few two-handled, glazed and unglazed, costrels
and about half a dozen mediterranean storage jars (so-called olive jars).
The costrels are of French manufacture, with a fine buff fabric, and they
quite differ in shape from the ones illustrated in Noel Hume and Hurst. The
olive jars are Iberian and seem to be a variant of Goggin's Middle
(elongated) type B. None of these vessels are "starred".
 
Gerard Gusset
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