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Early Bronze Age wooden coffin
Fragmentary dug-out oak-trunk 'coffin', resembling a canoe, originally about 2m long. The surviving portions consists of a solid end 500mm x 500mm x 210mm, a section like a segment of a circle and parts of the the floor of the central part.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
37.705/2
Find Information
Site Name: Disgwylfa Fawr, Melindwr
Grid Reference: SN7384
Collection Method: excavation
Notes: found with cremated bones, a lugged 'food-vessel' and a smaller wooden dug-out during undirected excavation of a barrow at above
Acquisition
Donation, 12/1937
Measurements
length / mm:1700
width / mm:500
thickness / mm:210
Material
wood
Location
In store
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