It is hardly surprising that there were several unique vessels amongst the huge corpus of pottery rescued. Perhaps the most exciting find was a tripartite vessel in the "Swabian" red-painted Fineware made in Buoch, which was the most popular fineware in the mid-Neckar area in the 13th - 15th century. Although fragments of such vessels had been found elsewhere, we had never before been able to work out what kind of strange pot they belonged to. The actual function of this tree-bodied (each "globe" was connected with the others) vessel, with one spout and one upper opening, ist however still something of a mystery. The majority of the pottery vessels consisted of several dozen small unglazed bowls in a coarse grey ware. Many of these seemed to have been unused and were found stacked inside one another, which suggests that a large supply had been thrown out in one go at some time in the 15th century (after the fire?). Perhaps they were used for sharing out meals for the poor.