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Description: | A seal from a stoneware jug (fired at such a high temperature that the clay becomes very hard and fully water proof). The seal is oval, with a double border, with a series of lines joining them together. The design is of a flower, with semi-circular design and a pellet in between each set of petals.
The jug was probably made in germany in the region of the Rhineland and imported. This sort of jug is probably 17th Century in date, and would have been used to import liquid. The mottled surface is produced by throwing salt into the kiln, so these jugs are often described as 'salt glazed'. They are called 'Bellarmine jugs', supposedly after a Cardinal Bellarmino who was very strongly against the Protestant Church. They are also sometime also Bartman or Beardman jugs. Fragments of these sorts of pots are quite common on archaeological sites in England. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrews-Wilson, Liz - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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