Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Floating cinerary jar with cover in orange-brown Etruria marl with visible inclusions, unglazed, the ground formed of a wooden base and back covered with buff-coloured Venetian plaster, the jar with a flat base and oval cross-section, tapering sides and flat shoulders with circular inset cover, the body has two evenly spaced, concentric, horizontal 'ribs' around its circumference, these have been left in a relatively unfinished state in some areas and small scrpaings of clay are visible, the plaster base is constructed in wood with a layer of Venetian plaster on the visible faces and has a flat platform and perpendicular back.