Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'Horningsea'.
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou

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Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note in pencil found with object reads: '13th Century.'
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou

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Context (Related Documents)
See lantern slide (LS.134970.TC1) in Photographic Collection.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Display)
Old display label found with jug reads: 'HEDINGHAM KILNS ESSEX'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Record for Z 15380: 'Hedingham ware strip jug. Neck decorated with ring and dot stamps'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Related Documents)
See catalogue card for sketch of the object.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Display)
Old display label found with object reads: 'Redware jug with fluting, twisted handle and stamped decoration. 13th century. Horningsea. Rackham, pl.33.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Large pottery jug: above the shoulder and neck (OO) decorated rope twist handle.
Event Date
Author: maa

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Context (Field collection)
Collected in 1860

Event Date 1860
Author: maa

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Context (Display)
A label found with object reads: 'Jug. English. 14th century. Lent by the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1931' (transcribed by Sarah-Jane Harknett 23/8/2001) [not seen 1/8/2019 I.Gunn]
Event Date 1931
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Rackham, Bernard. (1948). Medieval English Pottery. Faber and Faber: London. Pl. 33
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Two lead plugs in body of jug.
Event Date 23/8/2001
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Related Documents)
Spoerry, Paul. (2016). The Production and Distribution of Medieval Pottery in Cambridgeshire. East Anglian Archaeology no. 159. Bar Hill: Oxford Archaeology East. p. 234 (no. HM269), Fig. 9.73
[Note: indo incorrectly given as 1883.446]
Event Date 2016
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Analysis)
Paul Spoerry identified this jug as of Hedingham Fineware, dated to 1150-1350 AD. See publication (p. 234) for more details. The Period field had been given as 13th century, which has been retained as it is within this date range.
Event Date 2016
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Paul Spoerry (2016): 'Hedingham Fineware jug. Complete, stamped stripped rounded, almost globular, jug with internally thickened rim and no lip. The neck of the vessel is decorated with two rows of cartwheel stamps, and the body decorated with curved strips of applied clay. The base angle is obtuse and the base sagging. A twisted rod handle springs from the rim and below the point at which it joins the body is a lead pot mend, with a second lead pot mend close to the base. The jug is covered with a mottled copper green glaze.'
Event Date 2016
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Large pottery jug of Hedingham Fineware with a mottled copper green glaze. Almost globular body with internally thickened rim, neck decorated with two rows of cartwheel stamps and body decorated with curved strips of applied clay; sagging base. A twisted rod handle starts from the rim, and below the point at which it joins the body is a lead pot mend, with a second lead pot mend close to the base. A small hole in body.
Event Date 4/4/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)