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Description: | Marked: "26", Type series description: Ware - Rim - Nottingham light-bodied green glazed ware. Rim - thickened, squared, upright, flat topped, pulled lip. Handle - simple strap, squared shaped rouletting on high points of handle. Fabric - reduced internally (grey, dark grey) of white outer margin, sandy, hard, greasy appearance, (F48?, F14). Glaze: Glazed from rim downwards. Slightly olive green glaze with a yellow tinge. Thick, fairly glossy. Decoration: Applied face with beard and ears onto where the lip is pulled on the rim, and a series of vertical applied strips radiating out from the shoulder of the rim and handle down the pot body. On top of the strips squared/rectangular rouletting (2 bands has been added, along with brown iron oxide for decorative purposes). Incomplete - bottom part of pot missing. Found Moot Hall caves, 1956. Notes: Interesting example of an early vessel in Nottingham light-bodied green glazed ware. Third quarter thirteenth century., From old museum label - 'The Old Moot Hall Middens. During 1954 and 1955 the Peverel Archaeological Group carried out excavations in a series of caves in the sandstone rock under the site of the Old Moot Hall public house, Friar lane, Nottingham. In the course of this work, four undisturbed medieval middens (or rubbish pits) were found and a fifth midden appeared when the surface debris was removed during road-widening operations. Large quantities of contemporary pottery fragments were discovered, and in a number of cases it has been possible to reconstruct the original vessel almost completely. The outstanding discovery was the rare green-glazed and highly decorated jug made (almost certainly in Nottingham)[AI - now thought not to be the case] circa 1300. The dating rests on typological evidence as, despite careful research, no coins or other datable objects were found in any of the middens. A complete account of the excavation is given in the Annual Reports of the Group for 1955 and 1956 which will be available for reference at the City and County Libraries.' From the agenda for the Peveral Archaeological Group Committee Meeting 7th may 1956 now in History File NCM 1956-11 - '4. Moot Hall Pottery. The Pottery from the first midden was handed to the castle Museum by Sir Cecil Armitage at a civic ceremony on Monday, 30th April, 1956, when the Group received many compliments from the speakers. An honorarium of £75 has been received from the Corporation towards expenses incurred. The pottery from the other middens is not yet ready for disposal.'
Accession number: NCM 1956-11/(g) | Subjects: | food and drink objects of indeterminate use (containers) ceramics Medieval | Temporal: | 1250-1300 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | maker; excavator The Peverel Research Group | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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