Example of a summary, illustrations and a form of CMA Form used in the CMA-series in Dutch/English Summary from CMA9 Ceramics from a cesspit belonging to the inn `De Drye Mooren' at Breda (1661-1663) The cesspit was discovered during the restoration of a Breda house called `De Drye Mooren' (The Three Moors). During the 17th century an inn was kept in the house, which was owned by the Breda Reformed Church and its `Table of the Holy Ghost' (poor relief) from 1626 to 1703. In the churchwardens accounts repairs and extensions to the building are mentioned. In the year 1663 was extended backwards. The outer wall of this extension closed the cesspit. That fact provides a datum ante quem. From the same accounts it appears that the pit was cleaned regularly, the last time before 1663 being after October 10th, 1661, the datum post quem. Apart from a small number of objects left behind by the cleaners, the vast majority of the objects must have been dumped between late 1661 and sometime during 1663. As it is very likely that ceramic objects of an inn generally have a shorter lifespan than those from an ordinary household, many of the objects found were not much older than 1660. The numerous remains of the extremely fragile clay pipes is another corroboration of this dating. Of the 85 pipe bowls bear marks, many of them of known local pipe-makers. The differentiation in pottery types found in the cesspit is rather typical for an inn: 50 out of 137 ceramic items were plates of one kind or another, 84 drinking glasses were counted (not published here), but only 11 pipkins. The number of stoneware jugs is not very large (13), which suggests that pewter jugs were used more frequently; an inventory of 1678 bears out this suggestion. In percentages: 70% of the pottery was used on the table, only 14% in the kitchen. Fig. 1 Stoneware, maiolica, faience and porcelain from the cesspit Fig. 2 Faience from the cesspit Form used in the CMA-series in Dutch/English CMA year/volume/form number VINDPLAATS EN VONDSTNUMMER Findspot and findsnumber BEWAARPLAATS EN INVENTARISNR Depository and inventory number VONDSTOMSTANDIGHEDEN Find circumstances DATERING Dating PUBLICATIE Publication : VORMTECHNIEK Technique VERSCHRALING Addition grootte size dichtheid density materiaal/ material STRUCTUUR Structure porositeit porosity hardheid hardness bijzonderheden details OPPERVLAKTEBEHANDELING EN VERSIERING Surface treatment and decoration OVENATMOSFEER Kiln atmosphere KLEUR Colour BIJZONDERHEDEN Details SECUNDAIRE VERSCHIJNSELEN Secundary phenomena TOESCHRIJVING Attribution productiecentrum production centre : datering dating : functie function : OVERIGE OPMERKINGEN Additional remarks :

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