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Early Bronze Age pottery beaker
Coarse oxidised brown fabric with large temper fragments and a rough surface. Vessel has an angular profile with distinct angular girth and a cordon around the neck. Decoration comprises twn horizontal rows of stabbed wedge shaped impressions from rim to base. This is a largely reconstructed vessel of which only about one quarer is original. Clarke (1970) group N/MR Lanting and Van der Waals (1972) step 7.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
41.300/1
Find Information
Site Name: South Hill Barrow, Talbenny
Grid Reference: SM 833 111
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1941
Notes: From the excavation of a composite kerbed round barrow in a cist near the circumference; from the primary deposit in a small mound of clay and stones covering an apparently empty grave dug in the sub-soil.
Acquisition
Donation, 5/12/1941
Measurements
height / mm:(as restored) 165
diameter / mm:internal rim 132
diameter / mm:base 80
diameter / mm:max. girth 145
weight / g:595.7
length / mm:of neck 82
Material
pottery
Location
In store
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