Our friend, Simon, called round on Friday to collect some pottery he's left with Hay's sister for firing in her kiln. He specialises in prehistoric pottery, specifically beakers and fermenting ewers. He also volunteers with demos at Stonehenge.
Here's his facsimile of the kind of beaker produced by the Beaker People of Bronze Age Britain, which is roughly 2,400 to 1,800 BC.
The Beaker culture existed in the late Neolithic in continental Europe, but the art form didn't reach Britain till the Bronze Age.
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