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Early Bronze Age pottery collared urn
Good ware with buff surface, of bipartite type, with deep collar and deep internal bevel to rim. Decoration (corded) throughout: on bevel of rim: three horizontal lines; on collar: alternating triangles with filling of oblique lines with single enclosing line above and below and a narrow band of short oblique lines on bottom of flange. Restored from fragments.
A large urn was placed over this small urn containing the cremated bones of a child aged 7-11 years. 1700-1500 BCE.
LI7.3b
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
25.415/2
Find Information
Site Name: Kilpaison Burrows, Rhoscrowther
Date: 1925
Notes: From the excavation of a round barrow 400m. NE of Devil's Quoit. Found inverted over another collared urn (24.415/1).
Measurements
height / mm:442
diameter / mm:(mouth) 311
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