IRON AGE POTTERY
A FIND IN BELGIUM. After 17 weeks’ research, workers of the excavation section of the Royal Cinquantenaire Museum, Brussels, have discovered in the dunes at La Panne, 20 miles from Ostend the remains of a pottery works dating back to the Iron Age (from 1000 B.C. to historic times). Among the interesting objects found is a small tripod of baked clay used by the primitive potters for drying the vessels they made. Another important find consists of slabs of baked elay in which had been embedded a kind of earthenware nails. These were the potters’ ovens, the vessels to be baked resting on the nails, which formed a grid, inside whi,ch was the fire.
It is stated that \ip to now nobody has known how these processes wore carried out 3000 years ago. Some thousands of fragments of pottery have also been unearthed
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20104, 24 March 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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146IRON AGE POTTERY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20104, 24 March 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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