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Early Bronze Age pottery collared urn
Good brown ware, well made with narrow rim which has a deep concave bevel internally, and a well-marked neck and shoulder, the latter being the widest part of the vessel. Decoration: oblique impressed 'maggots' forming a herring-bone pattern on rim, collar and neck, with simple row just under shoulder, which also has a series of long, oval depressions spaced along it. Longworths (1984) Primary series.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
24.572/1
Find Information
Site Name: Holt, Wrexham
Grid Reference: SJ 406 545
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1907
Notes: Also calcined human bones representing a stoutly-built man and a child of 8-10 years, found about 10m. N of the barracks on the Roman Site. One of the urns inverted and full of calcined bones, 1m. 30 below ground; the exact circumstances of finding otherwise unknown.
Measurements
height / mm:189.5
diameter / mm:(shoulder) 185
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