Description (Physical description)
Description for 1969.73 [A-H]: 'Mugs with chocolate coloured glaze (Babylon Kilns). Plain/twisted handles. (One with greenish glaze).'

Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Found by workmen in 1968 employed in rebuilding under Barclays Bank, possibly from a pit.
Event Date 1968
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
McCarthy, M. R. (1974). 'An Early Seventeenth-century Pit Goup from Bene't Street, Cambridge'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 65(2), pp. 79-92. Fig. 6, No. 1.
Event Date 1974
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1969.73 [A-H]: 'Found, 4 complete bases with part of the body, 2 handle sherds and numerous smaller sherds.'
Event Date 6/9/2001
Author: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Complete base of a Babylon ware mug with partial body attached. Vessel walls taper towards splayed base; decorative band of horizontal ridges just above this. Thumb-impressed joins for two handles, very close together, located near base. Brown-black glaze; red fabric. Some whitish accretions.
Event Date 13/1/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle