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57/248
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Earthenware cider bottle, 'Dorset pill', used for carrying out to harvest fields. Made at Verwood near Wimborne, closed in the mid-20th C..
This earthenware cider bottle, also known as a 'Dorset pill', was used for carrying cider out to harvest fields. It was made at Verwood near Wimborne, an old established pottery which closed in the mid-twentieth century. It was used in south Hampshire, and was formerly a part of the collections at the Red House Museum, in Christchurch.
Physical description
1 cider bottle: earthenware; good condition
Archival history
MERL ‘Associated information’ form – 'Made at Verwood near Wimborne, an old established pottery closed recently. // Reference Hutchins "History of Dorset", 1756? // Used in south Hampshire. // [pencil sketch] // yellow glaze // earthenware...'
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Verwood
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