Potters' Square
A square for the town's potters, with wheels and kilns, planned beside the main road.
The homes on this corner stay where they are until work starts. Then they move together to a new street, and their residents will hold the Made way honour.
Potters in Mesopotamia were turning clay on wheels more than five thousand years ago, and many historians think the wheel spun for pots before it ever rolled under a cart.
Ever wonder?
Why do ancient pots survive when almost nothing else does?
Fired clay does not rot. A pot can break, but its pieces last for thousands of years, so archaeologists often date a whole town by the style of its broken pottery.
Facts
- Wheels
- 6
- Kilns
- 2