Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Early Bronze Age pottery collared urn

Two joiing sherds of the rim of a collared urn. Quite fine, wel finished fabric containing moderate sub-rounded crushed rock inclusions (<5mm) and moderate rounded grog (<2mm). Oxidised orange external surface, brown internal surface and grey core. The collar is decorated externally with incised triangles filled with oblique incised lines, the internal surface is decorated with vertacl incised zig-zags forming a herring bone pattern. Beneath the collar is decorated with two horizontal bands of short stab-and-dragged herringbone design.

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

19.298A/49

Find Information

Site Name: Llandderfel, Gwynedd

Techniques

Hand made

Material

Pottery
Grog tempered
Crushed rock tempered

Location

location verified by JLD

Categories

Collared urns
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