Bit of a blast This unusual ceramic hand grenade was made at
John Dwight's pottery in Fulham, around 1673. It is made of
stoneware. Stoneware is a hard pottery produced by firing clay
at very high temperatures. How did it work? Ceramic grenades
were filled with gunpowder and sealed with a wooden plug. They
were lit with a fuse pushed through a hole in the plug. This
grenade was never used and seems to have been an experiment by
John Dwight. He may have planned to supply grenades to the
government during the Third Dutch War (1672-4). But there is no
evidence that he ever did. John Dwight's pottery John Dwight
founded a pottery in Fulham around 1671. It stood between New
King's Road, Burlington Road and Fulham High Street. Until 1675
he experimented with different types of pottery before settling
down to make stoneware tankards, bottles and other household
items. Although Dwight died in 1703, the factory continued until
the 1960s. From 1971-9 the Fulham and Hammersmith Historical
Society excavated the site as i