Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Early Bronze Age pottery collared urn

Black ware with smooth buff surface, of tripartite form with narrow collar, high shoulder and hollow neck; the decoration consists of two rows of vertical 'maggot' impressions above a single row of saucer-shaped depressions on the outside of the collar and four horizontal rows of saucer-shaped depressions on the inside; also slanting and vertical 'maggot' impressions and a single row of saucer-shaped depressions on the neck and slanting 'maggot' impressions just below the shoulder. Longworths (1984) Primary series, from IA

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

38.573/1

Find Information

Site Name: Jacket's Well, Knighton

Notes: found when widening the Knighton-Penybont road, in a low barrow 1/4 mile South-west of Jacket's Well. Inverted over burnt bone.

Acquisition

Donation, 21/9/1938

Measurements

height / mm:298
diameter / mm:(mouth) 244
weight / g:

Material

pottery

Location

In store
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