Handmade pottery of the Migration Period and the Merovingian Period

The Chronology of Anglo‐saxon Style Pottery in Radiocarbon Dates: Improving the Typo‐chronology

“…96. Wijnaldum‐Tjitsma 6438/6451), where sherds of several complete G7 and HS‐pots together formed the pavement of a hearth, representing a single event (Taayke forthcoming). A gradual transition of G7 to HS is supported by the gradual change from finer to coarser fabrics (Krol et al .…”

The Frisians and their Pottery: Social Relations before and after the Fourth Century AD

“…That is indeed the case. The typological study by Taayke (1996) has shown that there are considerable similarities but also identifiable differences between his four sample areas: Westergo and Oostergo in Friesland, central Groningen and northern Drenthe (Fig. 3.1).…”

“…T he beginning of the present-day Frisians lies in the fifth century, when new inhabitants, conventionally called ' Anglo-Saxons' , arrived in the virtually abandoned terp region of the northern Netherlands. The Frisians that are mentioned by Roman authors such as Tacitus (Germania, and Pliny (Naturalis Historia,16.2), and who inhabited the coastal areas of the present provinces North-Holland, Friesland and Groningen, had largely abandoned the area in the third century, moving probably to the south, where they may have joined Frankish groups (Taayke 2000).…”

“…The hand-made pottery, both before and after the fourth-century habitation hiatus, does not have the typical traits of mass-produced wares. It was not standardized, although a limited number of different types can be identified (for the widely used typology of the pottery of the Iron Age and the Roman Period in the northern Netherlands, see Taayke 1996). Each pot is different and hand-made cooking and storage vessels are large and heavy.…”