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Someone recently asked me about what stamp dies would be the best for someone starting out with early Anglian/Saxon decorated pottery, so I thought I’d put a post together with some information on that. Although the decorated pots from Anglian and Saxon Britain from around 450 to 650 CE have an incredible range of differentContinue reading “Starter Pack”

There are a couple of very small trefoil-shaped stamps shown in the primary source for the Anglian and Saxon examples I work from, and today I decided to take a crack at one of the tiniest, fiddliest ones. The exemplar is shown here at the lower right, from a pot found at Newark in Nottinghamshire,Continue reading “Trefoil Time”