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Early Bronze Age pottery beaker
Beaker with a buff surface and black core. Long necked form decorated with reversed bar chevrons in three zones. The ground is filled with horizontal or oblique lines, the whole is coarsely notched. Traces of ring building is visible on the interior surface.
Clarke (1970) developed southern British beaker group (S2(W)) Lanting and Van der Waals (1972) Step 5-6 beaker
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
01.112
Find Information
Site Name: New-house Farm, St Fagans
Collection Method: chance find
Date: 1900 / Jun
Notes: found in a grave at above whilst cutting a trench for a water pipe. Discovered with two skeletons in a pit covered by a flat slab. The skeletons belonged to two men, one of middle age and the other young.
Measurements
internal diameter / mm:113 (rim)
diameter / mm
height / mm:162 - 164
diameter / mm:78 - 80 (of base)
weight / g:564.2
length / mm:61 (of neck)
thickness / mm:7 (of wall)
circumference / mm:110
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