Jug

Harvard Yard Excavations, 1987. Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 987-22-10/105964

About this jug

Medallion: Miscellaeneous

Location:

1465-1483 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Long/Lat: 42.3735077, -71.1183576

Archaeological Context: Sealed feature: Residual / intrusive context

Site type: Colonial / European cultural context, Urban landscape

Notes: Found during the 1987 excavation of Harvard yard. Excavations focused on the oldest part of the yard where both the "seventeenth-century Old College and Indian College buildings" were located (Digging Veritas: The Archaeology & History of the Indian College and Student Life at Colonial Harvard | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University: Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://peabody.harvard.edu/hyap).

Time Period: 1625 - 1725

Height: 29.00

Max-width: 9.00

Feature description: Old Yard, H14-3 N8 E7 SW Quad Lev3 50-70 cm

Identifier: 987-22-10/105964

Custody: Museum

Custody Data: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University