Afternoon, chums!

 

I can’t comment on the thesaurus details of this, but these jars (and I have a good acquaintaintance with stone cider and beer jars – as we called them in Somerset, which sometimes led to confusion) had a cork in the bunghole, into which was set a wooden or metal tap, with a horizontal flat upper to turn it. The cork usually failed after a while, but it dripped for a bit before there was a catastrophic failure and a flooded shed / larder floor!

 

This site has a photograph of one with the tap still at (this a slightly different design of tap to Somerset ones, but you get the picture, so to speak):

 

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/stone-cider-jar-pearsons-chesterfield-246511642

 

Vince

 

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From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Botfield Sarah
Sent: 08 June 2012 14:21
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Subject: Tap Jar

 

Hello all

 

Can anyone help? Do you know which Thesaurus term would fit this object (see picture). The article refers to them as ‘tap-jars’. I had thought of ‘demi-john’ but that doesn’t really fit and that doesn’t appear in the thesaurus either.

 

 Could I call it a ‘BUNGHOLE JAR’?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you

 

Best wishes

Sarah

 

Sarah Botfield  BA (Hons), MPhil

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