“To this day, a thin-edged horn is one of the pleasantest things from which to drink beer or cider…” wrote Gertrude Jekyll and Sydney Jones in their 1939 book Old English Household Life.
For centuries, the shape and dense structure of horn mugs, fashioned from the tapering section of a bullock’s horn, made them popular for use as drinking vessels even after the introduction of pewter and stoneware.