Jug spout
This ceramic horse head is from a medieval water jug called an ‘aquamanile’, used for washing hands during meals. The jug was made in Doncaster, Yorkshire, and was discovered by archaeologists in Exeter. It is decorated with impressed circular stab marks and combing patterns.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/1208
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- pottery
- Common Name
- jug spout
- Simple Name
- aquamanile (sherd)
- Period Classification
- Medieval (1200-1500)
- Production Town
- Doncaster
- Production Country
- England
- Production Year Low
- 1230
- Production Year High
- 1270
