Graham Taylor

The first thing that happened really, when I got back to the UK with the family, I like that mug.

That's a nice, sorry.

Your listeners can't see that, but that is one heck of a mug.

That is a good one.

It is a good one.

I, to my shame, am sitting here with an industrial mug sitting next to me.

Yeah, they get broken.

They get broken.

Sorry, in answer to your original question, we came back to the UK and I'd sort of

had all these influences, including living in Lesotho for years and seeing ancient pottery made.

Came back and I started researching a little bit, really with the intention of doing more sculptural stuff.

And I got talking to the archaeologists at the Northumberland National Park, Rob Young and Paul Frodsham, who were at that stage busy digging a Bronze Age site in a valley just really close by.

They came to talk to me because they'd found within these huts some clay-lined pits and, of course, various bits of Bronze Age pottery and then some burial mounds in which grave goods in the form of pottery had been placed, including a rather beautiful Bronze Age urn, which very sadly had the cremated remains of a small child with enough skull fragments to know that it probably died of meningitis.

Oh, wow.

And even after 4,500 years, it's still poignant.

It still makes you go, wow, that's amazing.

And I said, yeah, I can.

Word got to the head of the National Park, and he came and he said, look, Prince Charles is visiting fairly soon.

Could you make a set of these to give to Prince Charles as a gift?

So our King Charles owns one of our sets.