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Early Bronze Age pottery collared urn
Good ware with buff surface transitional to cordoned type, the shoulder being marked by a definite rib and the base of the collar is similarly marked, while the rim has a deep internal bevel. Decoration (corded throughout): on bevel of rim: three horizontal lines; on collar: panels of herring-bone, divided by narrower panels of vertical lines, with double enclosing line above and below. Longworth (1984) Secondary series, Form 1A.
This large urn was placed over a small urn containing the cremated bones of a child aged 7-11 years. 1700-1500 BCE.
LI7.3b
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
25.415/1
Find Information
Site Name: Kilpaison Burrows, Rhoscrowther
Date: 1925
Notes: From the excavation of a round barrow 400m. NE of Devil's Quoit Cremaion burial II
Measurements
height / mm:188
diameter / mm:(shoulder) 189
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