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Early Bronze Age pottery beaker
Extensively restored, rim and base originally missing; of good, thin ware and reddish buff surface. Of continental zoned Beaker tradition with a slightly angular body. Features notched decoration throughout consisting of three zones made up of alternating diagonally hatched bands, the central zone defined above and below by a pair of horizontal lines, the bottom zone so defined at least on the upper margin. There are also two slight mouldings on the neck.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
34.473/1
Find Information
Site Name: Penderyn, Powys
Collection Method: chance find
Notes: found during the widening of the Penderyn - Brecon road near spot-level 1305
Measurements
height / mm:181.0 (as restored)
diameter / mm:174.0 (of girth)
diameter / mm:110.0 (of base)
weight / g:778.2 (as restored)
internal diameter / mm:150.0 (of rim)
diameter / mm
length / mm:30.0 (of neck)
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