Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Urn of good buff ware, roughly globular in form, with a small foot and the rim bevelled both internally and externally. The decoration consists of alternating notched triangles on the bevels of the rim, and on the body four zones divided by raised mouldings. The uppermost zone contains applied 'spectacle' ornament and bosses enriched with notched lines, with a row of triangular impressions at the top and bottom; the third zone a simple plain zig-zag with plain bosses in the lower interspaces; the fourth zone is undecorated. Fragmentary and restored, approximately 50% being plaster of paris.

The cremated remains of a man and a woman were buried with this large urn in a stone cist beneath a mound. 2000-1700 BCE.

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