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Earthenware Cup found in pit house

  Photo: Richard Plander

Pit house: Earthenware Cup

These fragments of a cup made in Staffordshire, England, were found in the same pit house as the scissors. Earthenware was the least expensive kind of ceramic ware in the late 1700s.

Related: Excavation of the pit house