Forms vary according to USE, LOCAL PREFERENCES and CONTEMPORARY STYLE.
We can easily imagine simple forms were used throughout the Viking Age but we know that complex forms and decoration changes with time.
A POT FROM 1050 IS NOT THE SAME AS A POT FROM 850 !
A POT FROM FINLAND WILL NOT LOOK THE SAME AS ONE FROM DENMARK !
POTS ON THE JARL'S TABLE WERE NOT THE SAME AS A THOSE IN PEASANT HOUSE!
We can easily imagine simple forms were used throughout the Viking Age but we know that complex forms and decoration changes with time.
A POT FROM 1050 IS NOT THE SAME AS A POT FROM 850 !
A POT FROM FINLAND WILL NOT LOOK THE SAME AS ONE FROM DENMARK !
POTS ON THE JARL'S TABLE WERE NOT THE SAME AS A THOSE IN PEASANT HOUSE!
TIME TRENDS
Earlier pots are hand-built. except for some unusual finds from Ribe, wheel and cavalette are unknown.
Later pots show they are made with a cavalette.
Imported wares from the Rhineland and England can be made on a wheel.
DANISH POT FORM CHRONOLOGY AFTER ERIKSEN et al. 2009 here
PLACE TRENDS
Large pots for the fire have different arrangements for the hanging cords.
In Denmark the cord holes are reinforced or protected with a little 'swallows nest'.
In Skåne there are raised lugs with a simple perforation.
POT SUSPENSION METHODS after Gammelætoft and Sindbæk, 'Kistoriske regionalitet på tværs af foggrænser'
in Hikuin 35, 2009, here
(Otherwise the holes for the cord can be made just in the side of the pot or the pot edge can be turned-in to protect the cords from fire.)
Wares with characteristic inscribed lines as decoration and lids, burnt grey, is a characteristic of areas bordering the Baltic and may be produced by Slavic settlers, wives or slaves. It is thinner-walled and flat-bottomed, so may have been more presentable for table-wares.
These 'Baltic' wares appear in the later 10th century and spread from east to west across Sweden and Denmark but remain unusual in Jutland. They never completely replace the simple forms.
Distribution of Baltic wares after Gammeltoft and Sindbæk 2009. here
Look closer at the common types found in Denmark here
Look closer at the common types found in Sweden here
Look closer at Baltic Ware here.
Look closer at exotic types here.
Earlier pots are hand-built. except for some unusual finds from Ribe, wheel and cavalette are unknown.
Later pots show they are made with a cavalette.
Imported wares from the Rhineland and England can be made on a wheel.
DANISH POT FORM CHRONOLOGY AFTER ERIKSEN et al. 2009 here
PLACE TRENDS
Large pots for the fire have different arrangements for the hanging cords.
In Denmark the cord holes are reinforced or protected with a little 'swallows nest'.
In Skåne there are raised lugs with a simple perforation.
POT SUSPENSION METHODS after Gammelætoft and Sindbæk, 'Kistoriske regionalitet på tværs af foggrænser'
in Hikuin 35, 2009, here
(Otherwise the holes for the cord can be made just in the side of the pot or the pot edge can be turned-in to protect the cords from fire.)
Wares with characteristic inscribed lines as decoration and lids, burnt grey, is a characteristic of areas bordering the Baltic and may be produced by Slavic settlers, wives or slaves. It is thinner-walled and flat-bottomed, so may have been more presentable for table-wares.
These 'Baltic' wares appear in the later 10th century and spread from east to west across Sweden and Denmark but remain unusual in Jutland. They never completely replace the simple forms.
Distribution of Baltic wares after Gammeltoft and Sindbæk 2009. here
Look closer at the common types found in Denmark here
Look closer at the common types found in Sweden here
Look closer at Baltic Ware here.
Look closer at exotic types here.