Bog Born: Ceramics & Crafts

Bog Born: Ceramics & Crafts She specialises in ancient, nature and folklore inspired designs.

Bog Born is the creation of Emma, a Scottish archaeologist and traditional crafter who loves squelching about in clay, collecting leaves and vines, or playing with firey furnaces.

New workshop stool!!!! 😀 An exciting day to not be toppling backwards every time I sit on my old stool and the leg falls...
03/09/2026

New workshop stool!!!! 😀 An exciting day to not be toppling backwards every time I sit on my old stool and the leg falls off 😂

Many a happy day I'll spend potting away with my trusty stool made by the wonderful Danny Harling

What better way to procrastinate than do a silly little photoshoot with your new workshop stool 🤣

(Spy a snoozy Bog Dog in the workshop too 🐾🐾)

Right, to work now!

And the pots are out of the fire from the Neolithic pottery workshop I did a few weeks back for Dunkeld Community Archiv...
27/08/2026

And the pots are out of the fire from the Neolithic pottery workshop I did a few weeks back for Dunkeld Community Archive

Definitely impressed with the creations of the participants, and we had lots of fun playing with local clay and prehistoric tools on the day 🔥🏺🔥

On an absolute throwing spree lately. Medieval cups, and cups for exciting upcoming projects 🤫😁
21/08/2026

On an absolute throwing spree lately. Medieval cups, and cups for exciting upcoming projects 🤫😁

Pict-ing about for the Celebration of the Centuries at Fort George over last weekend for History Matters Ltd with my fel...
12/08/2026

Pict-ing about for the Celebration of the Centuries at Fort George over last weekend for History Matters Ltd with my fellow Picts: Alex, Nick and Amy.
We may have been fighting the blustery winds instead of the Romans, but great to see so much enthusiasm for Pictish history and archaeology from lovely visitors. And our tents survived the gusts! 😃

Neolithic Pottery making day through Dunkeld Community Archive yesterday with a lovely group of enthusiastic potters wor...
30/07/2026

Neolithic Pottery making day through Dunkeld Community Archive yesterday with a lovely group of enthusiastic potters working with local wild clay, natural tools and craft and history chats to fuel us, to create some fantastic beaker inspired pottery.

Clay cleaning, tempering, cordage making, coil building, and decorating. We did it all! Plus a tasty lunch break of course 😁

Looking forward to firing these and getting your finished beakers back to you guys! 🍯🔥 Thanks for joining me for the day.

Another year of Ancient Caledonia Camp done and dusted. The crafts, archaeology chats, nerdery, campfire cooking and com...
28/07/2026

Another year of Ancient Caledonia Camp done and dusted. The crafts, archaeology chats, nerdery, campfire cooking and company were all on point 👌 Thanks to all the Pictish campers and all who make it happen for another great one.

My Neolithic Pottery workshop at Dunkeld Community Archive is fast coming up! A week and a day to go (Wednesday 29th Jul...
21/07/2026

My Neolithic Pottery workshop at Dunkeld Community Archive is fast coming up! A week and a day to go (Wednesday 29th July), in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland.

Here I was just finishing up firing some example pottery to bring along. But on the day we'll have a blast talking about prehistoric pottery, creating clay mixtures suitable for bonfires using local wild clay, handbuilding and decorating pots the old way using natural tools (🐚🦴🪨🧶), and making some cordage for decorating the pottery too!

Fresh mugs from the kiln 🔥 Pictish designs destined for the gem that is Groam House Museum
05/07/2026

Fresh mugs from the kiln 🔥 Pictish designs destined for the gem that is Groam House Museum

Now that I've recovered from the sweltering heat of Chalke History Festival last week, here's a few snippets of my week ...
04/07/2026

Now that I've recovered from the sweltering heat of Chalke History Festival last week, here's a few snippets of my week as an iron age potter at work. 🛖🏺
Chalke is always an inspiring week and it was awesome to face a bit of an iron age focus this year with the chariot build which I'm in awe of, and cutting edge talks on the iron age and celts by academics.

My humble contribution was to show the process of making the hand built but impressively decorative pottery of Glastonbury Ware from the waterlogged iron age site of Glastonbury lake village. However from studies done on the geology of the clay of Glastonbury Ware, it turns out that much of it was traded in from the wider South Western English region. Prehistoric trade networks always impress me!

Spy my little turn table 👀 which is a theoretical device that could have been used by iron age potters given it's similar to other technology of the time, but no evidence of this exact thing has been found... Yet!

Anyway, I had a blast talking about the iron age and craft with everyone who stopped by, even if I was half shrivelled from the heat 😂🫠

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