Coarse sandy ware jar
Tall jars like this were probably used for storing food and provisions, and the glaze on the inside made the pottery watertight. It was found in Exeter in a rubbish pit dating from 1600.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/2029
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- potterycoarse sandy ware
- Common Name
- coarse sandy ware jar
- Simple Name
- jar
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
- Production Year Low
- 1590
- Production Year High
- 1610