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Early Bronze Age pottery food vessel
Coarse, gritty, well-fired ware, with dark grey to brown smoothed surface, showing traces of ring building. The form is that of a shouldered food-vase with vestigial double shoulder groove, bridged by seven unperforated lugs; the decoration consists of fifteen broad horizontal furrows at regular intervals from shoulder to base, the intervening ridges and the flat top of the rim being decorated with vertical or vertical edges of the lugs. Savory group E - irish bowl.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
39.1
Find Information
Site Name: Disgwylfa Fawr, Melindwr
Notes: Original found in 1937 with a cremation and two dug-out tree-trunks in a round barrow on the summit of above
Acquisition
Made in-house, 3/1/1939
Measurements
height / mm:170
diameter / mm:(at shoulder) 203
Material
pottery
Location
In store
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