Ashmolean Museum: Pot Web: Early Medieval pottery 8

2000 years of pottery forms and shapes
Early Medieval AD 1000 - 1250

Common name Ashampstead type ware
Class Rounded jug
Height 283mm
Identifier PW138
Production centre village based industry at Ashampstead, Berkshire
Distribution wares commonly supplied to urban centres of Abingdon, Oxford, Reading and Newbury.
Use decanting of liquid
Date 13th century AD
Published in Bruce-Mitford 1939, Fig. 23 F, Pl XI, no 2, 97
Historic context associated with well 1 at the rear of a property fronting Broad Street in the north eastern suburb of Oxford, found with many pottery vessels and substantial oak boards up to 1 inch in thickness

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