Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Early Bronze Age pottery collared urn

Oxidised yellow brown surfaces with distinct blackening near the rim. The vessel has an inverted internally bevelled rim and a wide collear, with a sharply angled shoulder, producing a tripartite profile.

On the collar there is incised herringbone patterning, whilst on the neck is a frieze of concentric vertical triangles, filled with a background of horizontal lines.

Most of the rim and collar has survived, however, about half of the lower body is reconstructed.

Longworths (1984) Secondary series, North western style, form Ic

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

41.300/2

Find Information

Site Name: South Hill Barrow, Talbenny

Grid Reference: SM 833 111
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1941

Notes: From the excavation of a composite kerbed round barrow in a cist near the circumference; from the primary deposit in a small mound of clay and stones covering an apparently empty grave dug in the sub-soil.

Acquisition

donation, 5/12/1941

Measurements

height / mm:400
diameter / mm:internal rim 275
maximum thickness / mm:340
thickness / mm
diameter / mm:of base 180
depth / mm:of collar 80

Material

Pottery

Location

in collections
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