Broughton Pottery Jug
A ghastly memento of the tragedy is said to have been turned out at the Don Pottery, Swinton, in the shape of a small jug, the body of which was partly composed of two of the fingers of Spence Broughton.
The story runs that they were calcined and incorporated in the material from which a seal bearing a gibbet, and this jug, were manufacrtured.
Apparently a couple of men, employed at Don Pottery, Swinton were out drinking in Sheffield; as they passed the gibbet, they threw stones and as a result took home one of the fingers which fell off. They added the ground bones to the clay and the result was the Broughton Pottery Jug.
Source:Sheffield in the Eighteenth Century, By Robert Eadon Leader, Published by Sheffield Independent Press, 1901
