Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Early Bronze Age pottery food vessel

Grey-black ware with coarse grits, grey smoothed, somewhat damaged surface. Crude bucket shape, with internal bevel to rim. The decoration consists of two zones of large chevrons formed of two or three lines of wedge-shaped units made up of four or more notches, the zones seperated and framed above and below, by three or five horizontal grooves. Savory anomalous form.

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

26.204

Find Information

Site Name: Linney Burrows, Pembrokeshire

Notes: Found with contracted skeleton (since lost) in a cist beneath a small round cairn. A monolith had been set up on the coverstones of the cist, and the mound contained other elaborate features.

Acquisition

donation, 29/4/1926

Measurements

height / mm:181.5
diameter / mm:(mouth) 177

Material

Pottery

Location

location verified by JLD
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