Saxon cinerary urns; the stamped patterns are shown.
With the departure of the Roman legions their simple, yet comparitively advanced, pottery vanished, and Saxon and early Norman times have left us little but wares resembling those of these Germanic and Frankish productions.
Source: 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 5, p. 742
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