55/01

Hand-made

Inturned jar

MPRG 4.01.06

Cooking pot

Upright, squared

Convex

These vessels have vertical or slightly sloping sides and are almost always smoke blackened and/or sooted, indicating that their primary use was as cooking pots. There is some variation in size but the majority are around 24cm in diameter.

Medieval (Late 11th to mid 12th century)

These jars are in the same tradition as the squared rimmed cooking pots found in fabrics 57, 57.1 and 58. They seem to be amongst the first products of the Worcester kilns in the late 11th century. They were not produced in great numbers and were almost certainly not produced later than the mid to late 12th century.