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Bog Born: Ceramics & Crafts

She specialises in ancient, nature and folklore inspired designs.

Bog Born is the creation of Emma, a Scottish archaeologist and traditional crafter who loves squelching about in clay, collecting leaves and vines, or playing with firey furnaces.

11/10/2026

The pottery shelves are well stocked these days with archers, ships and beasties from the Bayeux tapestry. These tumblers are headed British Museum way, and I'll keep them churning out for months to come too.
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03/10/2026

A trio of colourful cups.💙❤️💚 These designs are headed out to some Scottish museum shops which I love supplying stuff for. The standing stones design is destined for Calanais Visitor Centre ,and the Pictish designs are heading for the black isle for Groam House Museum .

So get yourselves visiting some Scottish museums! Autumn is the best time for exploring these places anyway. 🏺

22/09/2026

From the studio wheel to the British Museum... 🧵🏺

I’ve been quietly working on one of the most exciting commissions of my career, and I’m thrilled to finally share it… I was asked to create a collection of handmade cups for the British Museum shop to coincide with the historic arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry in London!

Designing these meant diving deep into the medieval imagery of the embroidery, and the iconic narrative of the Norman Conquest. Every single piece carries a little bit of that 11th-century inspiration.

Thank you so much to the team at the British Museum for trusting a small maker like me. Having my work be even a small part of this massive exhibition is pretty surreal for my little archaeology nerd heart 🥹

If you’re heading to London to trace the story of 1066 at the museum, make sure to look out for them in the shop! 🏛️💛

14/09/2026

Freshly back from a Hobbity hiatus having the most wonderful, wholesome time living my hobbity dreams out at the The Brandywine Festival UK.
Hazel Crocker, the potter of the East farthing, was in attendance! A very happy hearted hobbit here, and to all the kind lovely hobbits I shared the festival with, thank you! 💚🐸🎶🫖🥔

Normal pottery and history content resuming now. I'm off to my workshop to glaze some pots and get back to it.

06/09/2026

Iron Age pottery living history day at Seven Lochs Wetland Park Drumpellier Park. Always delightful to share the love of archaeology and clay. Today's visitors make the cutest pots to take home too 😊 But that's this year's living history season largely coming to a close.
Workshop time increasing over the next while. 💚

03/09/2026

New workshop stool!!!! 😀 An exciting day to not be toppling backwards every time I sit on my old stool and the leg falls off 😂

Many a happy day I'll spend potting away with my trusty stool made by the wonderful Danny Harling

What better way to procrastinate than do a silly little photoshoot with your new workshop stool 🤣

(Spy a snoozy Bog Dog in the workshop too 🐾🐾)

Right, to work now!

27/08/2026

And the pots are out of the fire from the Neolithic pottery workshop I did a few weeks back for Dunkeld Community Archive

Definitely impressed with the creations of the participants, and we had lots of fun playing with local clay and prehistoric tools on the day 🔥🏺🔥

21/08/2026

On an absolute throwing spree lately. Medieval cups, and cups for exciting upcoming projects 🤫😁

12/08/2026

Pict-ing about for the Celebration of the Centuries at Fort George over last weekend for History Matters Ltd with my fellow Picts: Alex, Nick and Amy.
We may have been fighting the blustery winds instead of the Romans, but great to see so much enthusiasm for Pictish history and archaeology from lovely visitors. And our tents survived the gusts! 😃

30/07/2026

Neolithic Pottery making day through Dunkeld Community Archive yesterday with a lovely group of enthusiastic potters working with local wild clay, natural tools and craft and history chats to fuel us, to create some fantastic beaker inspired pottery.

Clay cleaning, tempering, cordage making, coil building, and decorating. We did it all! Plus a tasty lunch break of course 😁

Looking forward to firing these and getting your finished beakers back to you guys! 🍯🔥 Thanks for joining me for the day.

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