Thursday, 31 March 2011

Bronze-Age Pottery Workshops at Cairnpapple Scotland

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I'll be running Bronze-Age pottery workshops at Historic Scotland's fantastic Prehistoric site at Cairnpapple , Beecraigs and Bathga...
Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon Pottery Workshop

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The Anglo-Saxon pottery workshop which I ran at Sutton Hoo on Sunday 27th March 2011 produced some great results.  A small but dedicated gro...
Saturday, 22 January 2011

The Eagles Have Landed

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I've been working with a group of students from Burnside College in Wallsend to create a piece of sculpture relating to trade throughou...
Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Wonderful Flint Tools

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Taking a piece of soft plastic clay in my hand and forming it into a pot I understand, but striking a piece of flint with a piece of deer an...
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Sunday, 2 January 2011

From Ancient Egypt to English Country Slipware

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I think I've said before that my work can be quite wide and varied, well here's an example:  Over the past few days I've been wo...
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Saturday, 27 November 2010

Kiln Floor in Production

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You might be forgiven for thinking that it's National Boring Photograph Day but this pic does illustrate the fact that, while we are in ...
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Prehistoric Pottery Disposal Experiment

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I have started an experiment to find out how a large piece of collared urn will stand up to the winter weather. The pot was made by me a cou...
Saturday, 6 November 2010

Roman Pottery Kiln Progress

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Installed the Ware chamber floor today and started applying the clay lining.  Unfortunately there won't be any further work on it until ...
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Roman Sunken Kiln Under Construction

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I can't believe that it has been so long since I've recorded my work here, it's been a very busy summer so there's lots of c...
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Sunday, 4 July 2010

Making Medieval

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I'll be at Rievaulx Abbey Saturday and Sunday 10th and 11th July demonstrating Mediaeval potting methods so I'm making some addition...
Friday, 2 July 2010

Zeus figures now available

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Working on ceramic figures of Zeus for Tyne & Wear Museums today Visit my website at www.pottedhistory.co.uk
Monday, 21 June 2010

The Team at Making the Bronze Age

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Making The Bronze Age; Bellwood Riverside Park, Perth, Scotland

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Back in my own w or kshop, in Rothbury, N or thumberland, after a weekend as part of a re-enactment event on the banks of the beautiful Tay ...
Sunday, 13 June 2010

Bronze Age Pots for Perth

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Working on some bronze age pots to accompany me on my workshop in Perth, Scotland, Saturday and Sunday 19th & 20th June 2010.   V...
Friday, 28 May 2010

Slipware Wedding Plate

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Successfully completed the wedding plate commission, in the tradition of Thomas Toft. www.pottedhistory.co.uk
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Ancient Firing Technology

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Most books one reads talk about 'bonfire firing'; fast open firings using large quantities of wood and accepting a quite high percen...
Tuesday, 25 May 2010

National Towel Day

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I'm not sure that I qualify as a 'Hoopy Frood' but I do always know where my towel is, it's beside my wheel covered in clay....
Monday, 24 May 2010

The Joy of Field Walking

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Field walking with Coquetdale Community Archaeologytoday, in the Coquet Valley today over a field where the local farmer has been finding l...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Huge Canopic Jars Completed

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Set of painted canopis jars ready to go off to the Yorkshire Museum.  These are the largest that I have made, the largest standing over 50cm...
Monday, 17 May 2010

Charlie Brooker, Museums, Pots and Boredom

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Self styled Ranter Charlie Brooker, with whose words of wisdom, I have to confess, I usually concur, was heard on the Jeremy Vine show, on F...
Saturday, 8 May 2010

TRIAL BY FIRE

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With any ceramic piece the firing is always the most risky part of the making process but this is particularly the case with prehistoric, op...
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Sunday, 2 May 2010

THE JOY OF TOOLS

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There is something very special and satisfying about using replicas of ancient tools to make a replica of an ancient tool.  Making tools to...

WORK IN PROGRESS

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What I love most about my work is the diversity, my workshop is always full of pieces from a whole range of time periods. Requests from muse...
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Thursday, 29 April 2010

SAMIAN WARE WORKSHOP

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The next workshop in my new series at Elsdon is on the subject of Roman Samian Ware. In this one you will learn to make and decorate high st...
Monday, 26 April 2010

The Roman Pottery Workshop

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The Gods of the Lararium were smiling upon us over the weekend. The workshop went really well with everyone producing several Roman Pots, ...
Thursday, 22 April 2010

Workshop Nearly Ready

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The workshop is ready to go and there are many workshops planned for the future. I don't suppose that a collection lof different types ...
Friday, 16 April 2010

Volcanic Sunset in Northumberland

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From Inner Golden Pot at the top of the Coquet Valley looking out, over the Cheviot Hills, into the Scottish Borders, what a way to relax af...

The First Pot on a New Wheel

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What a joy, to create a new wheel in the image of a very old wheel and then make the first pot on it. I'm delighted to say that it per...
Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Six Wheels on my Workshop.....so far

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And I'm aiming for ten. Today I built two stick wheels, one floor mounted and one a seated wheel, and cast the flywheels for two momentu...