Potter's fire pit at Grange Farm, Benwick
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Potter's fire pit at Grange Farm, Benwick
Image: © M J Richardson Taken: 7 Jul 2018
At a Peterborough Artists' Open Studios day; one of the participating venues was Grange Farm. This is the way that Bronze age people would have fired their pottery - dig a pit about 0.6-0.8m deep, put wood shavings in the bottom, then the pots. Cover and fill with more wood and kindling, light the kindling and once it is well alight cover with a lid [corrugated iron was used here - not sure what the Bronze agers would have used - perhaps clay?]. Leave for about 24 hours, uncover and remove the fired pots.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.514058
Longitude
-0.045787