Accession No

1969.75 A


Description

Dripping dish of buff fabric with green-yellow glaze on rim and inside. Oval in shape; everted rim bevelled inside and collar outside; upstanding, undulating strap handle with crimping; obtuse-angled flat base. Reconstructed with plaster, unknown paint and an unknown adhesive from nine sherds.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Bene't Street; Barclays Bank


Period

Post Medieval


Source

Barclays Bank [donor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1969.75 A


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic


Local Term


Measurements

289mm x 94mm x 409mm


Events

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1969.75 [A-C]: 'Sherds of large meat/fish dishes; (McCarthy serving dishes, fabric B.) Internal green glaze one crimped handle'.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Found by workmen in 1968 employed in rebuilding under Barclays Bank, possibly from a pit.
Event Date 1968
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (References)
McCarthy, M. R. (1974). 'An Early Seventeenth-century Pit Goup from Bene't Street, Cambridge'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 65(2), pp. 79-92. Fig. 5, No. 1.
Event Date 1974
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Description for 1969.75 [A-C]: '7 sherds found'.
Event Date 7/9/2001
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
Dripping dish of buff fabric with green-yellow glaze on rim and inside. Oval in shape; everted rim bevelled inside and collar outside; upstanding, undulating rod handle with crimping; obtuse-angled flat base. Reconstructed with plaster, unknown paint and an unknown adhesive from nine sherds.
Event Date 12/1/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


FM:19374

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