Ashmolean Museum: PotWeb: Post-medieval pottery 9

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2000 years of pottery forms and shapes
Post Medieval AD 1600 - 1720

Common name Redware, Martincamp-type
Class Globular flask
Height 220mm (on end)
Identifier PW43
Production centre in the vicinity of Martincamp, northern France
Distribution to ports in British Isles and inland
Use for storage of fortified wine
Date 17th century AD
Published in Mellor 1997b, Fig 59, 51
Provenance found with other pottery in excavations to enlarge the kitchens at University College, Oxford.

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