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Description: | Miniature lead jug dating from the medieval to post-medieval period. Lead jugs are one of the more common miniature items and may have been used as childrens toys. They sometimes closely resembled their pottery counterparts. This example has a flat circular base and a wide body at the bottom; this then narrows at the waist and widens again at the neck although a section around the neck has broken away. The handle on the jug has a square section and a right angle at the top where it attaches to the neck. The sides of the vessel have cast decoration in the form of vertical lines. The jug has been squashed during deposition and burial. According to Egan (1988) a stone mould for miniature jugs has been excavated from a medieval deposit at York Minster which may suggest these artefacts held an ecclesiastical meaning or function. This example measures 36.87mm in length, 30.4mm in width, 18.48mm in thickness and weighs 32.56g. A very similar example can be seen in Geoff Egans ??Base-metal Toys?? Finds Research Group datasheet 10, Fig. 3. | Subjects: | miniature | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Marshall, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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