Monday, 8 February 2010

Prehistoric & Roman Pottery Workshops

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OK ........ I have committed myself, my new pottery teaching studio, at the Coach House in Elsdon , Northumberland, will be ready for the e...
Saturday, 6 February 2010

Coiled and Filmed: Hand Building Pottery

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I've been trying my hand at some rather poor film making (OK those of you who have read my mini rant about experimental archaeology (bel...
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Monday, 4 January 2010

Young Potters

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At a recent Children's Archaeology Day event, organised by Coquetdale Community Archaeology , in Harbottle, Northumberland, I took alon...
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Egyptian Bread

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Other recent bread making activity has included using the conical pots of the type used in the Valley of the Kings. Quite successful althoug...
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Sunday, 22 November 2009

Roman Pottery workshops for schools

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Just finished throwing 35 pots which will form the backbone of my workshop with a class of Key Stage 2 children at a Northumbrian school tom...
Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Samian at Last

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I have finally managed to find the time to fire the batch of Samian Ware that I made over a month ago! Much to the relief of some of my cust...
Monday, 9 November 2009

Bread and Circuses

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Although I am a potter and would normally say that this is my only real area of expertise, I have in recent years, been called upon to bake ...
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It is getting cold in Northumberland!

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As I think I've said before, my job is such that every day is different. I notice and am often delighted by very small and possibly insi...
Saturday, 26 September 2009

Experimental Archaeologist or Ancient Technology Specialist?

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Who should conduct experimental archaeological experiments; archaeologists or practitioners of the particular technology under investigation...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Stibbington Potters Wheel - Stick or Kick?

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Fig.1 Fig.2 Fig.3 The case for classing this as a stick wheel: Firstly I Note that radii drawn through the holes that I have marked as 1, ...
Friday, 4 September 2009

WELCOME TO THE WORLD!

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Just a very brief interuption to the flow of this blog to note the most joyous news that today I became a grandfather. TAAAAAARAAAAH!! Visi...
Wednesday, 2 September 2009

Questions, Questions, Questions!!!

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Working at Museums, English Heritage Sites and the like, with a mixed audience of children and adults, I am constantly presented with new qu...
Thursday, 13 August 2009

HYPOCAUST HITS THE STREETS OF SKIPTON

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The hypocaust under construction It’s amazing what you can end up making as an historical potter: Children from several Skipton schools had...

SUPERSIZERS FIND ROMAN POTS IN NORTHUMBERLAND

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It's a bit of a cheat but I'm simply going to post the essence of the article that was published in the local paper regarding this t...
Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Canopic Jars and Standing Stones

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Wednesday is our day off so I only unpacked a kiln before setting of on an archaeological visit, a set of canopic jars that I've made fo...
Monday, 30 March 2009

Back to the Wheel

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Ok so I started in January with the enthusiasm of the newly converted and then............................ well I guess that the work got i...
Monday, 19 January 2009

The job isn't finished till the paperwork's done!

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I have just finished putting together my accounts for the Tax Man, I have great empathy with Vimes from Terry Pratchett's novel "T...
Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Conversations With Pots

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When I handle an ancient pot it’s a little like shaking hands with the original potter; a handshake across thousands of years. I can feel th...
Sunday, 4 January 2009

This month I'll be mostly making Saxon Pots

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OK it's New Year and I have a mountain of Pots to make . To add to the Nottingham Pots and Samian Ware for another museum The Gefrin Tr...
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Monday, 29 December 2008

Replica Pots for Christmas....what else?

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I am guessing that all the people who ordered from me, replica pots for their loved ones, will by now have given them so that I can now reve...
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008

Mediaeval Pottery Kiln at Shotton

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A few days ago I was invited to visit the archaeological excavation of a pottery production site at Shotton, to the north of Newcastle upon ...
Sunday, 21 December 2008

Roman Replicas for Nottingham University

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Over the next few weeks I will be making a collection of Replica Roman Pottery for the Archaeology Museum at the University of Nottingham. M...
Saturday, 20 December 2008

Roman Pottery at Newcastle YAC

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I spent today working with a great group of young people at the Newcastle branch of the Young Archaeologists' Club (YAC). The theme for ...
Friday, 19 December 2008

Prehistoric firing

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Last week you'd have found me bent over a small fire in the corner of a Northumbrian field, replicating the firing techniques of the N...