The potter's wheel was widely used by the beginning of the third phase of the Early Bronze Age, about 2400 BCE. Pottery cannot be made by hand modeling or coiling without the potter either turning the ...

Some of the major advances during included the introduction of the potter's wheel, the lathe (used for woodworking) and rotary quern for grinding grain. There are nearly 3,000 Iron Age hill forts ...

Wheel-throwing techniques were not introduced into Britain until the end of the Iron Age. Until the first century BC, British pots were hand-made by coil- or slab-shaping. Clay was mixed with ...