Accession No

D 1977.5 A


Description

Small wheel-made unglazed rounded jug, reconstructed and incomplete. Simple internally bevelled rim; flared neck; plain strap handle joined to the neck below the rim; rounded body decorated with horizontal, shallow rilled grooves. Two sherds of rim and handle detached but present.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Wicken; Butts Farm


Period

Medieval 15th century


Source

Nield [depositor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

D 1977.5 A


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note found with objects reads: 'Butt's Farm. Wicken'
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou


Context (Field collection)
Found at a rubbish pit underneath kitchen of a 16 Century AD house at Butts Farm
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Description for D 1977.5 [A-B]: 'Fragments'.
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Paul Spoerry (2016): 'Small wheel-made rounded jug with a flared neck and simple internally bevelled rim. A plain strap handle is joined to the neck below the rim. The jug is unglazed and there are shallow rilled grooves horizontally around the body. Moderately hackly fracture, light grey external surface blending across the core to a light brown internal surface. Sandy feel, moderate-abundant fine quartz, occasional medium quartz and rare very coarse calcareous inclusions up to 3mm.'
Event Date 2016
Author: Danlei Zhou


Context (References)
Spoerry, Paul. (2016). The Production and Distribution of Medieval Pottery in Cambridgeshire. East Anglian Archaeology 159. Bar Hill: Oxford Archaeology East. p. 202, Fig. 9.54 (HM136)
Event Date 2016
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Small wheel-made unglazed rounded jug, reconstructed and incomplete. Simple internally bevelled rim; flared neck; plain strap handle joined to the neck below the rim; rounded body decorated with horizontal, shallow rilled grooves. Two sherds of rim and handle detached but present.
Event Date 24/10/2023
Author: Danlei Zhou


FM:16094

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