Ashmolean Museum: PotWeb: Highly decorated pottery 10

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Highly decorated 13^th -14^th centuries

Common name Brill/Boarstall ware, Buckinghamshire
Class Puzzle jug
Height 330mm
Identifier PW13
Production west Buckinghamshire
Distribution west to Oxford
Use drinking games
Date Mid - late 13th century AD
Published in Hinton 1973, no 12; Alexander and Binski 1987 no 551, 440-441
Historic context an area of town associated with wealthy merchants, with another similar jug (British Museum B.6)
Presented by Percy Manning 1911

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