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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.
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Site Name: Pen Gloch-y-ibwr, Cwm-du
Notes: found in a cist under a cairn