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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
The upper part of a jug in a hard grey gritty fabric, coated pink/buff on both sides. A partial rim, half the neck and some body survives (joining sherds). There is also a small section of a strap handle from the same vessel but this is not adjoining the rest of the vessel.There is faint rilling visible on the neck. The rim is slightly everted and clubbed with a flat upper surface and narrow depresssion running across the top. The strap handle is flat with a single stab mark on the upper surface.
Aileen Fox suggests that it is wheel made and probably of 13th Century date.
Site Name: Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan
Notes: from excavations carried out by the late John Storrie on various sites Reported to come from St Baruch's Chapel, according to an undated hand-written inventory list included in the finds boxes.