Gusseted wall pot
Knickwandtopf is the modern name for a common ceramic form from the Merovingian period .
Buckling wall pots are a very varied type of find from the early Middle Ages . The name is derived from the double-conical structure of the vessel body. The wall of many gusseted pots is decorated with single or roller stamps, grooves, impressions or wavy lines. From the regional distribution of decorations and different types of goods it can be deduced that these vessels were made in different pottery shops .
Finds of buckled wall pots are known from settlements as well as from graves in row grave fields from areas of different Germanic tribes from the 5th to 7th centuries AD. The double-conical shape was also common for cans with a tubular spout, the so-called tubular spout cans .
literature
- Wolfgang Hübener : Sales areas of prehistoric pottery north of the Alps. Antiquitas series 3 vol. 6, Bonn 1969.
