This is the home of Berthelm the Potter. Berthelm makes cooking and storage vessels out of clay. He digs up the clay from a boggy place he knows near the river. He makes pots, dishes, jars and jugs, big and small. He sometimes makes them by hand, coiling up a thin clay sausage into a pot; but he also has a simple potter's wheel. Berthelm puts a lump of clay onto the turn-table of his potter's wheel. It is connected to a second wheel which he spins with his foot. This makes both wheel and table turn. Then he can smooth the clay and hollow it out into a circular pot using his fingers. He needs lots of water to keep it wet. He has several small 'dies' which the bone worker has carved simple patterns onto. Berthelm can press these into his pots again and again to make a repeating pattern. Then he builds a bonfire and carefully places his pots into a pit. When the ashes are smouldering he pushes them over the pit to bake the pots slowly. (Later Saxons used proper kilns). When everything has cooled, he can sell the pots. Activity Sheet available.