Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Early Bronze Age pottery miniature vessel

Of exceptionally good thick ware, with dark grey well-smoothed surface. Well finished biconical form with flat, internally sloping rim and two perforations 50mm apart, just above the carination. The decoration consists of grooves, forming two friezes of hatched triangles between horizontal lines above the carination, a cruciform pattern comprising four triangles, two of which are concentric and two cross-hatched, on the slightly convex base, and vertical or slightly diagonal lines on the rim. There are traces of red colouring matter in the incisions.

LI7.3c

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

38.37/2

Find Information

Site Name: Breach Farm, Llanblethian

Grid Reference: SS 969 738
Collection Method: excavation

Notes: From the central burial pit of a kerbed round barrow, 250m north-west of the farm. A tanged copper alloy chisel and a small copper alloy knife in the final stages of disintegration could be seen in outline but could not be preserved.

Acquisition

Donation, 17/1/1938

Measurements

height / mm:49.0
diameter / mm:96.0 (of girth)
weight / g:207.8
internal diameter / mm:50.0 (of rim)
diameter / mm
diameter / mm:50.0 (of base)

Material

pottery

Location

St Fagans Life Is gallery : Prehistoric and Roman Death

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