Continuing with the theme of specific workshops in East Anglia, here is a pair of stamp dies based on the ones used by a potter working in what is now Cambridgeshire. Examples of their work have been found in Girton and Newnham, and incorporate a triangular and cruciform stamp, both of which have a hollow center. I replicated the stamp dies and made this pot using design elements of several finds attributed to this particular potter, who seems to have had a fondness for chevron patterns made of triple lines. The overall form is scaled down from a find from Girton (about 2/3 scale).
Source: Myres, A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Pottery of the Pagan Period, Vol. 2, Fig. 300.



