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Early Bronze Age pottery beaker
Beaker with buff coloured surface and grey interior, restored from fragments; with a globular body and cordoned below the rim. The decoration (which is notched throughout) consists of a herring-bone on the cordon, and two zones, on the neck and body repectively, each formed of a diagonally hatched band flanked below by a pair of horizontal lines. Of Continental Zoned Beaker tradition.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
40.179/1
Find Information
Site Name: Sutton 268', Llandow
Grid Reference: SS 950 722
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1940
Notes: from a crouched inhumation burial of an adult male in a central pit in the primary barrow
Measurements
height / mm:165.0
maximum diameter / mm:161.0 (of girth)
diameter / mm
diameter / mm:80.0 (of base)
weight / g:165.0
internal diameter / mm:115.0 (of rim)
diameter / mm
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