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CommentAuthorphil
- CommentTimeNov 6th 2009 edited
Thank you Brenda. Is there any earlier East Anglian Anglo-Saxon pottery? Do we know what type the Spong Hill cremation urns are? Or the cremation urns from Sedgeford?
Thanks, Phil.
P.S. I know it is early days yet but as soon as you have possible dates for the pottery school could you let me know? Thanks. -
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- CommentAuthorSoph
- CommentTimeNov 9th 2009
Hi Phil
Since Brenda's not around, Yes - there is masses of earlier AS pottery, including all the cremation urns you are talking about. They are all hand built wares referred to en masse as 'Early Saxon Handmade', whereas Ipswich and Thetford wares are wheel thrown pots. There are also some earlier imported pots I think, but I don't know much about them.
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CommentAuthorphil
- CommentTimeNov 9th 2009
thank you Soph, do you know if any cremation urns been identified as wheel thrown or as Ipswich ware? I suppose I need to revisit my Myers!! -
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- CommentAuthorSoph
- CommentTimeNov 10th 2009
No - the Cremation Urns are substantially older, and not even much like Ipswich ware. A period of furnished inhumation burials known as the 'final phase' intervenes between their use and the 8th century.
I have read some limited discussion about some urns potentially showing rilling (the signature of throwing in a pot) but I've never heard it said it was conclusive. Personally i think it's pretty unlikely. Myres is absolutely the right place to start to understand the Urns in detail, but it's very dense going!
(You should also not get sidetracked if you come across older books talking about something called a 'slow wheel' - this is a discredited concept - a wheel is either fast enough to 'throw' a pot by forcing clay outwards with centripetal force, or it's not. Anything else is just a finishing turntable.)
Hope that's useful.
Soph