June 20th Photograph Ancient Pottery Scotland

June 20th photograph of Ancient Pottery in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Making the Bronze Age. Making and Firing Late Bronze Age Pottery. The first pots in Britain appear around 4000 BC with the first farmers of the Neolithic began to settle and required storage and preparation vessels for food. While pottery making methods in Britain changed little from then until the arrival of the Romans, the various styles are important indicators of date and culture to archaeologists. Pots were made by hand building, using the pinch and coil techniques, and fired in open fires, probably in the domestic hearth as one of the household chores. A new pottery style arrived in Britain, along with flat axes and inhumation burial practices, as part the Beaker culture around 2700 BC, and by the Late Bronze Age, distinctive types of burial urns had developed.

Graham Taylor is an experimental archaeologist and master potter, specialising in reproducing prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon pottery from Britain and Ireland, and has worked extensively with the public in recent years. Participants in the prehistoric pottery workshop will learned to form and decorate replica Late Bronze Age urns and food vessels based on surviving examples from Tayside and then fire them in open fires.


June 20th photograph of Ancient Pottery in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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