Discarded by a Norman potter, jug made for Derbyshire family brings £30,000

In January 1862, while draining a field close to the site of Duffield Castle in Derbyshire, workmen from the Kedleston estate happened upon a quantity of ancient pottery shards.

What they had found was the site of the medieval Burley Hill Pottery.

The finds were brought to the …

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