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 (Related Documents)
Note on catalogue card for 1969.78: 'McArthy's jars, chamber pots, storage jars and many sherds of the same described in McArthy's miscellaneous section. The two 'chamber pots' are both near complete.'
Event Date 1969
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1969.78: 'Cooking pots/jugs/jars. Jars, chamber pots, storage jars and many sherds of the same. The two 'chamber pots' are both near complete.'

Event Date 1969
Author: maa

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. 2 No. 1.
Event Date 1974
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: On display in the Clarke Gallery, case 52, from 1984 until 08/03/2010.
Event Date 1984
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Part of a single-handled storage jar of medium red to grey fabric decorated externally with dark green glaze and internally with brown-green glaze. One large section, partially reconstructed using sherds and plaster infill, and two smaller sherds. The jar has: a flat, splayed base; a rounded body; horizontal grooves across the upper body and shoulder; a small neck; an everted rim with an internal flange, an externally thickened and rounded edge, and a raised band of thumb-impressed pie-crust decoration between the rim and neck; a vertical strap handle, mostly broken and missing, with an oval cross section and a circular thumb impression at the bottom.
Event Date 16/1/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad