12th November 2014, 04:31 PM
Tool Wrote:: a dramatic change in the economy post-Roman influence leading to the demise of the commercial potter and the reintroduction of more 'primitive', locally made pot from a diminished skill-base, which also may have led to the seeking of alternative materials (you can boil water in any material that holds together, and holds water obviously, above 100*C...); a change in fashion; and as noted above and related to the first part, the confusion between the pot of that period and the pot made under similar circumstances in pre-Roman times. ...its not difficult to make a pot, people had managed for a few millennia. but its absence over vast swathes of britain for a considerable period - even where it had been made alongside the furnished grave tradition/sfb zone surely points to deliberacy?
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