Ball pot

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Two medieval ball pots from Schleswig
Ball pot from Limmer Castle

As a ball pot (sometimes bomb pot ) is one in the Middle Ages spread ceramic mold called. The vessels, named because of their spherical shape, were used to prepare meals and placed directly on the fire. From the beginning of the 10th century to the middle of the 13th century, spherical pots are the most common ceramics in northern Germany (states Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein ).

In the areas east of the Elbe , however, the spherical pot did not displace the Slavic clay pots with a standing base until the eastern colonization of the 13th century .

Finds

In the summer of 2007, during construction works in Nordhausen in an excavated medieval cesspool some ball completely preserved pots found, which probably date from the 13th century. Numerous spherical pots are known from the Rhineland , and the production facilities there include the Siegburg pottery with Siegburg stoneware .

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