Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Early Bronze Age pottery miniature vessel

Restored; of coarse gritty ware with rough grey to buff surface of biconical derivative form, with vertical upper wall, pierced by lozenge-shaped and triangular openings. The decoration consists of the following - on the internal bevel of the rim: oblique incised lines on the upper wall: double incised lines with small stabbed dots between, following outline of openings on the shoulder: a row of dots between incised lines on the base: an incised circle with a ring of dots within, and a small incised cross at the centre; with, radiating from it on the lower wall, a series of double lines forming a "whirl-wheel", the spaces between being filled alternatively with horizontal lines and dots

LI7.3c

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

19.298A/2

Find Information

Site Name: Bryn seiont, Llanbeblig

Notes: found in a large cinerary urn

Measurements

height / mm:53.0
maximum diameter / mm:64.0 (of girth)
diameter / mm
internal diameter / mm:50.0 (of rim)
diameter / mm
weight / g:130.4 (as restored)
diameter / mm:22.0 (of base)

Material

pottery

Location

St Fagans Life Is gallery : Prehistoric and Roman Death

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