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Early Bronze Age pottery beaker

Of poor dark grey ware with grey-buff surface, reconstructed from a number of sherds. Of long-necked type with handle and external ledge to rim. The decoration is coarsely notched throughout and is as follows: above ledge - a series of horizontal lines, with a single zig-zag between the bottom two. The topmost line is covered by a second series of oblique notched impressions made with a different tool; on neck - a series of continuous elongated hexagonal figures enclosed by horizontal lines, with just below the ledge a single zig-zag; on body - as on the neck, but with a zig-zag in the middle of the lower group of horizontal lines; on handle - a series of vertical lines enclosed by zig-zags.

Early Bronze Age pottery beaker
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Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

24.353 A

Find Information

Site Name: Pen Gloch-y-ibwr, Cwm-du

Notes: found in a cist under a cairn

Measurements

height / mm:186.0
internal diameter / mm:115.0 (of rim)
diameter / mm
maximum diameter / mm:130.0 (of neck)
diameter / mm
diameter / mm:78.0 (of base)
length / mm:90.0 (of neck)
weight / g:771.4*

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Handled Southern British Beaker group: SH4 Lanting & Van der Waals; Step 6-7 record verified by A. Gwilt
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