This is the home page for www.beakerfolk.co.uk

These webpages are devoted to the pottery of Bill Crumbleholme, which is largely inspired by the Bronze Age Beaker Folk and other prehistoric pottery styles.

Visit the pottery section to see what Bill is currently producing.

This is an urn made by Bill in the style of the Bronze Age Collared urns. The photo was taken just before it was cracked when attempting to fire it in a garden bonfire - such is the life of an experimental archaeologist!

Follow this link to see this events page, where details of some of the forthcoming events can be seen.

These webpages were set up originally to promote all aspects of the Bronze Age, but recently that content has been moved to a new site, managed by Bill for the Ancient Wessex Network at this link.

If you wish to contact Bill please email him :-
bill@beakerfolk.co.uk

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Bill is a potter living and working in Dorset on the south coast of England.

These pages provide a taster for some of Bill's pottery activities, such as workshops, with links into the archive pages dealing with particular events, such as projects or firings.

Bill has a passion for ancient pottery, he undertakes experimental archaeology and explorations into Bronze Age techniques.

A clamp firing experiment at Martin Green's Farm by Bill, more can be seen at this link.

Bill has recently constructed a wood fired kiln, follow this link to see what he is doing.

Bill made a batch of replicas of the Amesbury Archer beakers and fired them in an open bonfire, there is a page about this project, including a YouTube video at this link.

These are a batch of clay objects inspired by neolithic jadeite axe heads, an exercise in producing very smooth surface finishes. These are still drying out, in between being polished and coated with ball clay slip.