Tudor earthenware cooking pot

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

Very badly damaged earthenware cooking pot. Excavated from 4a Chequer Street. This pot came from a cesspit (pit where the contents of chamber-pots were emptied, sometimes a pit with a hut/seat over it) and is very badly damaged & discoloured by the contents! As it never had any feet it is not strictly speaking a pipkin. Pipkins were cooking pots with a handle and three small feet, designed to stand in the hot coals at the edge of the fire. They would have been used in kitchens at all levels of society.

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