Abstract: A typical pottery sample has been prepared by mixing unearthed potshards from Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties in certain proportion. The potshards sample are cleaned, dried, ground and sieved, and 200 mesh powder is selected. The powdered sample is dried again before being sealed in polyethylene bottles, The sample is analysed for 24 elements(Sm, Ce, Lu, Yb, Nd, La, Tb, Eu, U, Th, Hf, As, Cs, Sb, Sc, Rb, Cr, Zn, Ta, Co, Ba, Fe,Na and K by INAA and K0 method. As a control for accuracy, standard reference materials SRM 1632a, BCR-1, GXR-4 and JG-1 are analysed. The agreement between our results and literature values is satisfactory.