by Tom Licence | May 16, 2016
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...
by Tom Licence | Jan 31, 2015
Tapering stonware bottles for drugs, condiments or polish. The one on the left, from Great Wakering, has been in a destructor, which has caused the glaze to melt. Iron oxide stains and other accretions are visible on the surface. The other, from Hadleigh, came from a...
by Tom Licence | Jan 31, 2015
Two ceramic bottles for ink or dye which have been in a destructor in London. Dumped as hardcore to build a road surface in Essex.
by Tom Licence | Jan 25, 2015
A tiny clear glass jar with a burst-off lip. It has been partly melted in a destructor.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Left: two stoneware bottles from the Battersea Aerated Water Company. They have been in a destructor. The glaze has run and accretions of burned cinders etc have attached to the bottles. Right: a green mineral water bottle from Chalk Farm, partly melted in a...
by Tom Licence | Dec 24, 2014
Found in the same deposit as the doll ‘Floradora’. Part of this cup (left) has been burned, and the glaze has partly melted. The other part shows no sign of burning. It is likely that the broken cup was swept up with other rubbish and flung in the fire,...