20th January 2008, 07:04 PM
As I have got older, when feeling low, I have found contemplating the Dark Age helps. I have never really liked accepting the end of a Roman centric view thrown out to a world of funny maps with arrows showing the movements of vandles, visigoths, gepids, angles, thuringians, earls, frisians, franks etc when a perfectly simple papist continuity (via Constantinople, Avignon) would suffice (I think archaeologists should lump rather than split).
Currently the four vertically fluted (ribbed, columned, corded...) jug handle has caught my attention (more Hansic than Dark Age). In the space of a few weeks over Christmas I found buried in a thick clay layer which I had thought was sterile, a chunky four flutes (on the right), then on another site I got from a ditch the nice thumbed one, also four fluted (they- are believe)
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And then along came these two beauties. They were mixed in with a bit of saucy slipware. They remind me of something but I dont seem to be able to put my finger on it; hopefully it will come to me soon. Not exactly sure if fluted is the word that I am looking for.
[img] http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2414/2206...3f.jpg?v=0 [/img]
I am also quite happy trawling around goggle books- its about time they got full access to all the academic libraries. Todays word was warp land. It seems the environment agency is set hell for leather to get rid of it.
Currently the four vertically fluted (ribbed, columned, corded...) jug handle has caught my attention (more Hansic than Dark Age). In the space of a few weeks over Christmas I found buried in a thick clay layer which I had thought was sterile, a chunky four flutes (on the right), then on another site I got from a ditch the nice thumbed one, also four fluted (they- are believe)
And then along came these two beauties. They were mixed in with a bit of saucy slipware. They remind me of something but I dont seem to be able to put my finger on it; hopefully it will come to me soon. Not exactly sure if fluted is the word that I am looking for.
[img] http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2414/2206...3f.jpg?v=0 [/img]
I am also quite happy trawling around goggle books- its about time they got full access to all the academic libraries. Todays word was warp land. It seems the environment agency is set hell for leather to get rid of it.