This simple-stamped pit-fired clay vessel is known as Roanoke ware. This pottery is named after the island in North Carolina where it was first defined, mixed with European artifacts, in a late 16th-century ditch of the English settlement of Fort Raleigh. It is the type of pottery produced by the Pasbeheghs and other Indian groups surrounding Jamestown.

Most of the pieces of the large cooking pot have been found in Pit 1. It was probably used by the Indians to carry food to the colonists. Once the English had consumed the contents of the pot, they threw it away because, like most Indian pots of the time, it had a rounded bottom and would not sit up straight on a flat surface.