@pottedhistory
Potted History: Ancient maker of replica ancient pottery, shaper of clay, builder of kilns, maker of tools, Experimental archaeology: Ceramic Technology. Prehistory Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Iron-Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval.
Did you know that our Archaeology department was part of a team that uncovered evidence of a Roman industrial hub in the North East of England?
The findings suggest the site was once a major part of Roman Britain’s manufacturing and trade network. Find out more 👉https://bit.ly/4cK3uTv
@merryn02.bsky.social also making pots for you this week
Today I'll be mostly decorating replicas of the Nether Largie South Cairn, Chalcolithic beaker, and here you can see the tools I'll be using. But it hides some very useful archaeological evidence, if you'd like to know more visit our YouTube channel youtu.be/TlA22i7vpx8?... #archaeology 🏺
Couldn’t resist going to visit this little moufflon myself 😍
Interested to hear their reaction 😄
Photo of two small replica pottery vessels with tealight candles lit inside them. One with slot openings casts a radial pattern of light outwards onto the desk
Yep well done most of you - thinking about the purpose of early Bronze Age miniature cups/incense cups/accessory vessels using @pottedhistory.bsky.social replicas! Managed not to set off the smoke alarm.
... it is rather a beautiful continuity, in the idea that hot coals may have been taken from the domestic hearth to light the pyre. It should be said they also work really well as hand warmers; essential on a cold night in the afterlife.
1/2 Just love to see our replicas used for teaching. I never liked BA miniature vessels being grouped as "incense cups" they probably served various purposes. Eg. Grape cups carry hot coals really well without burning your hand. Excellent for lighting a pyre or indeed a domestic fire. But there..
We love what we do! 🙂 When we started to research them, we realised that the range of expressions on the originals is amazing, makes me want to create a Bes emoji set!
A lovely late Roman Knife Handle found at Bifrons Anglo-Saxon cemetery and part of the Kent Archaeological Society Collection held at Maidstone Museums.
Hunting motifs such as this one are a common site throughout the Roman Empire!
📸 Maidstone Museum
Ebonyteach's ancestor - great-great Grandmother Sara(h) Kinsler Gibson Davis.
This is my great-great grandmother, Sarah Kinsler Gibson Davis. 🙏🏾
She's the only child of our ancestors Daniel and Mary Katherine Kinsler whom our family has a picture of... she has more than a thousand descendants.
The enslavers brought our ancestors to Florida in 1842 during the Seminole Wars.
The wisest among us have always recognized religion as nothing more than the ability to control the masses from the time of the cave. It is evil presented as the most desirable good making it acceptable to those without the will or acumen to understand.
My photo shows a Roman Rippenschale (ribbed) blue glass drinking cup with a rounded body and slightly flaring rim. There is some breakage to the rim. The ribs run vertically around the body of the cup, with horizontal bands of white trail decoration around the cup. At the rear of the museum display case, part of a larger ribbed dark blue glass bowl can be seen.
A 2,000 year-old Roman blue glass drinking cup found in Trier, Germany.
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
📷 by me
#Archaeology
I googled what anthropology and scientists think Jesus really looked like:
5 various size quartzite stones
A few of my hammerstones that I use for #flintknapping. #archaeology
Shameless publicity warning ⚠️⚠️⚠️ Soon to be available on potted-history.co.uk
That's weird, I didn't know about National Pig Day, but yesterday I was making these Roman pig rattles/whistles
Aww, bless you. Every penny still helps. 7th anniversary of hell this April, housebound since 2020 and fractured my pelvis (vertigo) the other week.
www.gofundme.com/f/long-covid...
If you're digging the garden and want to get rid of some clay, I'll send my address 😁
The clay around the Peterborough area is so good that it's been used since prehistoric times. In fact it's still used by the London Brick Co. But the Roman Nene Valley industry was centered on Castor and Water Newton.
In the Potted History workshop today🏺: Roman Pompeian style Mortaria, available from our online store potted-history.co.uk #Archaeology #Pottery #History #Replicas
Correct Link!: Opening the kiln is always a little nerve wracking but, if I do say so myself, the latest batch of replica, Nene Valley, barbotine decorated, Roman colour coated Hunt Cups, have come out looking rather splendid! Get them before they sell out. share.google/PmpCsh2Z8CQx...
Nooooooo! Sad to hear that, your presentation style and obvious, genuine enthusiasm is perfect. Looking forward to seeing what you have in store for us in the future.
Unique #crochet pattern for three amphorae - available to download on @LoveCraftsCom: bit.ly/2i5XJAs #amphora #amphorae #archeology
As a kid I used to walk the hills around Rothbury. My favourite place to eat my lunch was sitting inside one of the hut circles at Lotdenshaws Hill Fort, thinking of all the people who had done the same over two thousand years earlier.
This is the same level of cruelty I expect from Reform, their sipporters and anyone appointed by them. Facism doesn't necessarily arrive in jack boots, it infects Society one cruel step at a time!
2026 is a big year for @pottedhistory.bsky.social and I.
We will have been living and trading back in Rothbury for 20 years.
We will have been married for 50 years
And I will be celebrating my 70th birthday.
Here's to another year of family, adventures, creativity and laughter.
Crunchy!
Old photograph of fragmented comb, Ertebølle culture. From Madsen 'Affaldsdynger fra Stenalderen i Danmark, undersøgte for Nationalmuseet' (1900), Plate VII
It's not an aggressive hand gesture sent from the distant past, but rather a comb with broken-off teeth from the eponymous Ertebølle shell midden.
Neergaard (1900) found the object itself to be 'probably the most charming of all the [Ertebølle] combs', but he is super underwhelmed by its decoration
