Accession No

D 1956.7


Description

Wheel-finished globular jug of grey ware with one rod handle. Simple inturned uneven rim with a small pulled or pinched spout. Rod handle connects from rim to shoulder, incised with vertical grooved lines which fan out onto the body. Globular body with unevenly spaced horizontal grooves. Sagging base, sooted. Part of the rim and body broken off and missing.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Hauxton; Hauxton Mill


Period

Medieval 14th century 15th century 1350 - 1500


Source

Hurnel, G. T. (Colonel)


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

D 1956.7


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

207mm


Events

Description (Physical description)
Grey Ware. With sagging base. Small pinched out spout. Single handle with incised ornament of parallel lines splaying out at the base of the handle into the body of the jug.

Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Part of rim and body broken off and missing. Cracks around neck and body.
Event Date 23/8/2001
Author: Jodi Zhang


Description (Physical description)
Paul Spoerry: 'Near-complete wheel-finished rounded jug with simple inturned uneven rim with a pulled or pinched spout. There are unevenly spaced grooves running horizontally around the body which may be decoration, and the rod handle that springs from top of the rim has grooved lines running vertically down the handle. At the point that the handle meets the body of the vessel these incised grooves fan out onto the body. It appears that after the grooved lines were incised, small round holes were stabbed as a single row approximately down the centre of the handle. The base is sagging, obtuse-angled and sooted. Everton-type, hard-fired, mid grey-brown throughout. Rough feel to fabric, abundant-common medium quartz, moderate medium and coarse calcareous inclusions, occasional very coarse calcareous inclusions.'
Event Date 2016
Author: Jodi Zhang


Context (References)
Spoerry, Paul. (2016). The Production and Distribution of Medieval Pottery in Cambridgeshire. East Anglian Archaeology 159. Bar Hill: Oxford Archaeology East. p. 264, Fig. 9.87 (LM41)
[Note: idno incorrectly given as just 1956.7]
Event Date 2016
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Wheel-finished globular jug of grey ware with one rod handle. Simple inturned uneven rim with a small pulled or pinched spout. Rod handle connects from rim to shoulder, incised with vertical grooved lines which fan out onto the body. Globular body with unevenly spaced horizontal grooves. Sagging base, sooted. Part of the rim and body broken off and missing.
Event Date 5/10/2023
Author: Jodi Zhang


Context (Amendments / updates)
The Period field originally gave date as 13th or 14th century. Paul Spoerry (2016) has dated it to 1350 - 1500, and therefore the Period field has been updated accordingly.
Event Date 5/10/2023
Author: Jodi Zhang


FM:16040

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