Wooden Tankard
Description
A wooden tankard, brown in colour with base separated. Ten panels, handle and base present, string binding at base and 33mm from the top.
A tankard is a lidded drinking vessel. Unlidded drinking vessels with a handle are called, such as this examples are called ‘mugs.’ Each man would have his own mug, bought from the purser or made up from wood or horn. They needed to be watertight, so would have been made by coopers; it is possible that the ships cooper, where there was one, made them as part of his duties. It would have been possible to drink water at the start of a voyage whilst the casks remained fresh, but water goes stagnant quickly and beer would have been the preferred beverage, rations being limited to one gallon a day!
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Object Detail
Diameter: 126mm (4 15/16")