Graham Taylor

One of the issues is, and the ones from China come from fairly deep in a cave.

Now, although people will still refer to Paleolithic people as cavemen, not many of them lived in caves.

So pots being found in a cave is quite special.

But pottery that has been fired as pottery before, sort of prehistoric pottery, is mostly fired in open fires, not in kilns, which means it only gets up to about 800 degrees C, 900 degrees C on a windy day.

It means it's not very firmly fired.

It's not very strongly fired.

rain, frost, ice will destroy it, completely destroy it.

So the likelihood of finding anything from that sort of deep time is quite unlikely.

you know, whenever I demonstrate, I demonstrate on a stick wheel, spun with a stick.

It's a momentum wheel because we know that the Romans used it.

We know the ancient Greeks used it.

We know medieval potters used it.

And it's the same sort of thing that would have been in use in southern Iraq about 3000 BC.

Gets to Britain with the Romans in 43 AD.

So, you know,

We were a little bit behind the game.

You don't want to rush into these things, though, do you?

You've got to be sure it's right for you.

I'm only laughing because it is the question that everybody asks.

Why is it pointed?