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

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

Description (Physical description)
Sherds from jar with applied band below neck.
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Paul Spoerry (2016): 'Large wheel-finished or wheel-made jug, possibly a cistern. The neck is flared and the rim is externally thickened with a rounded surface. There is a narrow cordon at the base of the neck and an applied strip on the shoulder which is a decorated to form a combed thumbed strip. A plain strap handle springs from the neck and neatly joins the body. Mid grey fabric throughout. Rare very coarse rounded dull black inclusions up to 2mm that might be reduced greensand quartz grains.'
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. 236, Fig. 9.75 (HM279)
[Note: idno just given as 1977.8]
Event Date 2016
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Large wheel-finished or wheel-made jug, possibly a cistern. Slightly everted, flat, externally thickened rim; flared neck with a horizontal, narrow applied strip at the base; vertical flat strap handle decorated with a vertical incised wavy line from neck to body; obtuse-angled, sagging base. Mid grey fabric throughout. Previously reconstructed, now in 40 sherds.
Event Date 24/10/2023
Author: Danlei Zhou