Sugar Caster

Sugar Caster

Ceramic willow pattern sugar caster. A hole in the base would have taken a cork. The top is damaged – cannot be seen in photo.
Assorted glass and ceramic waste 1870s

Assorted glass and ceramic waste 1870s

Bottle glass, blue and white transfer-printed serving dishes, drinking glasses (fragmentary), broken ‘Hamilton’ bottles (bottom right corner), cut glass tumblers (above the ‘Hamiltons’), and a medicine bottle above them. All discarded at...
Ceramic tableware 1870s

Ceramic tableware 1870s

Left: fragments of blue and white willow-pattern plates. One piece is fused within a piece of clinker, showing that a layer of rubbish had been burned at a very high temperature (possibly as fuel to fire a furnace used for some industrial process during the...
Pie Dish

Pie Dish

Blue Willow Pattern Pie Dish, from the School House. Base has crazing, consistent with contact with hot surfaces.