A selection of ceramics through the ages (5 second delay) Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology The Collections:
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Early Europe & Near East
Classical to Medieval
Europe from 1500
Oriental & Islamic
2000 years of pottery forms and shapes
Early Medieval AD 1000 - 1250

  • Common Name Brill/Boarstall ware, Buckinghamshire
  • Class Baluster jug
  • Height 285mm
  • Identifier PW11
  • Production centre in west Buckinghamshire
  • Distribution west to Oxford
  • Use decanter
  • Date Late 12th - mid 13th century AD
  • Published in Bruce-Mitford 1939, Fig 25 F, Pl X no 3, 114, 119
  • Historic context well 23 within no 46 Broad Street in the north eastern suburb of Oxford
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