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VESSEL
Unique ID: SUR-35BCA7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An almost complete medieval jug, plain and round-bottomed; the front of the neck is missing. The jug is made in an oxidised orange fabric with a fine sand temper. Around the base angle there is deep parallel grooving. Olive glaze has been splashed onto the upper body to about a half of the way down the body and onto the V-section handle. The rim is unglazed. Heavy turning lines appear on both exterior and interior surfaces. The exterior is much blackened perhaps by continual soaking in a discoloured water or soaked soil. The glaze is also greatly discoloured. There are three punctures which have penetrated inwards from the exterior surface.
The jug gives the impression of having been carelessly potted and mass produced.
Notes:
It is unerstood that this jug (and SUR-35E9A2) was found by the grandfather of the man who submitted it for recording either on a bombsite in London c1955 or during the digging of the Blackwall Tunnel (the latter seems less likely).
Class: Jug
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 245 mm
Weight: 1282 g
Diameter: 180 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: B11-156
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: London (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Greater London Authority (Greater London Authority)
District: City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
Parish or ward: Castle Baynard (London Borough Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ3281
Four figure Latitude: 51.5125142
Four figure longitude: -0.09918094
1:25K map: TQ3281
1:10K map: TQ38SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
References cited
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