Drug jar
Pots like these were used to store ointments and were made by various pottery workshops across Europe. This jar was made in the pottery kilns of South Somerset, and discovered during excavations in Exeter.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/2342
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- potterySouth Somerset ware
- Common Name
- drug jar
- Simple Name
- drug bottle
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
- Production Year Low
- 1680
- Production Year High
- 1690