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”
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Going to Gotland
I recently got an order for a dozen pots that will be based on some late Iron Age finds from Gotland, so I recreated a set of stamp dies using two groups of pot shards in the collection of the Historiska Museet in Stockholm. These were found at the same location in Grötlingbo parish, andContinue reading “Going to Gotland”
A Tale of Two Triangles
I got started with stamped pottery via an interest in Langobardic pottery styles, but once I began to branch out into the styles associated with insular Saxon and Anglian pottery traditions from the same time period, I started seeing a lot of similar general shapes and motifs. The gridded diamonds, for example, or some ofContinue reading “A Tale of Two Triangles”
Trefoil Time
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”
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