Description (Physical description)
?Hedingham Ware.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Old label accompanies object: 'Hedingham kilns Essex'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten historic label found with object reads: 'Whittlesea Mere, Hunts. 1856'.
Event Date 1856
Author: Sophie Wardle

Context (Field collection)
Collected in 1856.
Event Date 1856
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Most of rim broken off and missing.
Event Date 28/8/2001
Author: Sophie Wardle

Context (Amendments / updates)
Label found with object, dated 1856, makes it extremely likely that this object was part of the original Cambridge Antiquarian Society collection and formed part of the original 1883 donation. Therefore, the Source field has been updated to include the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and '1883' has been added to the Acquisition Year field; previously there was no Source information.
Event Date 25/9/2023
Author: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Hedingham Ware jug with traces of glaze. Upright rim with a single rounded loop handle that is thumbed at the upper join with neck, connecting to shoulder. Squat and globular body decorated with concentric horizontal ridges. The flat base includes three pairs of thumbed decoration repeated at regular intervals around its edge. Orange fabric with areas of whitish accretions. Most of the rim is broken off and missing; some horizontal cracking throughout.
Event Date 26/9/2023
Author: Sophie Wardle

Context (Amendments / updates)
The East Anglian Archaeology report 148 on Hedingham Ware (Helen Walker, 2012) gives the date range for this type as 12th-14th century. Therefore the Period field has been updated accordingly.
Event Date 27/9/2023
Author: Sophie Wardle