ON SOME FRAGMENTS OF ENGLISH EARTHENWARE. 



Made of rough reddish clay, the jug is thrown on the wheel, 

 and fired at a high degree of temperature, which makes its 



hardness approach that 

 of the stone ware ; 

 the surface is smeared 

 with a plombiferous 

 glaze, containing some 

 oxide of copper, the 

 green colour of which is 

 only partially developed. 

 A fine jug, discovered 

 a few years ago at Burley 

 Hill, in Duffield parish, 

 near Derby, presents all 

 the same characteristics; 

 as far as clay, glaze, and 

 making are concerned, 

 both bear to each other 

 a striking similitude. 

 The Duffield jug shows 

 a large fire-crack, which 

 had made it unfit for 

 use, and caused it to 

 be thrown away by the 

 Fig. t. maker, very likely in the 



vicinity of the kiln where it was baked. It was found associated 

 with a great agglomeration of broken pots, which denoted the 

 former existence of some pot-works on the spot. Five horse 

 shoes and two buckles, worked in high relief on the surface, have 

 at one time been thought sufficient to connect it witli the Norman 

 Earls of Ferrers, and consequently to bring back its antiquity to 

 the medieval ages ; but as the Augustinian Priory, at Darley, near 

 Duffield had also the same horse shoes in its coat of arms, it may 

 with more probability be referred to some of the priors. It is not 

 uncommon to discover remains of ancient kilns round the precincts 

 of old convents. The monk may be said to have been everywhere 



