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This jug shows evidence of kiln adhesion caused during manufacture and also a small section of the footrim appears to have become detached during the firing. It is therefore possible that this was a kiln waster and it may have been recovered close to a kiln site. Another jug of similar size and shape, excavated in Nottingham, was undoubtedly a kiln failure as a split in the side of the vessel appeared during the firing and would have rendered it unusable. This was in the Henry Sandon Collection and had been purchased at Bonhams on 7 September 2005, lot 13. A related baluster jug, dated to the late 13th century was excavated in Bingham and is now in Nottingham Brewhouse Yard Museum, no.NCM-1878-314/8. A jug of similar shape with the addition of a moulded initial on the front, was excavated in Thurland Street in Nottingham, illustrated by Bernard Rackham, Medieval English Pottery (1948), pl.63.