There are no soils in Iceland suitable for clay production.  Consequently, all ceramics in the Viking and Medieval periods had to be imported from Scandinavia, Britain or elsewhere and traders tended to use other materials like leather or animal skin to transport goods.  Pottery is extremely rare on archaeological sites and only a couple of hundred sherds are known from the Medieval period.

Until now.

This morning, I stepped up to the god damn plate and revolutionized Icelandic archaeology by finding this: