Fig. 233.—In the Norwich Museum.
Fig. 234.—Ashmolean Museum.
The scene depicted on Fig. [224] exhibits some well-formed vessels in the foreground, while the dinner scene on Fig. [222] shows other varieties.
For culinary purposes the Anglo-Saxons appear to have had a kind of aversion to clay, hence their bowls were principally of metal or wood—generally of ash, and their drinking-vessels were of horn or glass.[28] One form of vessel, made of coarse buff-coloured clay, is here shown (Fig. [229]); and another of simple form is shown on Fig. [230].
The pottery of the Anglo-Saxon grave-mounds and cemeteries consists, unlike that of the preceding periods, almost exclusively of cinerary urns, and these have, as has been already stated on a previous page, been made near the place of sepulture; and, as a natural consequence, of the clays found in the neighbourhood. This is proved, incontestably, in the case of the urns found at King’s Newton, where the bed of clay still exists, and has very recently been used for common pottery purposes.[29]
Figs. 235 and 236.—King’s Newton.
Figs. 237 to 244.—Anglo-Saxon Cinerary Urns, King’s Newton.