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Early Bronze Age pottery encrusted urn
Encrusted, of good brown ware. The form is that of 'Food-vessel Urn' with internally and externally bevelled rim and wide double hollow moulding around the upper exterior. The encrustation consists of simple vertical lugs spaced out along the mouldings, which are enriched with deeply incised or stabbed lines. The external rim and edges of the mouldings carry herring-bone patterns of wedge shaped stabbed impressions, the wide ends of which are bifid. The internal bevel of the rim is decorated with alternating panels of horizontal and vertical corded lines. Savory group C - cordoned.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
36.299
Find Information
Site Name: Holywell Golf Links, Brynford
Notes: Found inverted over burnt bones in a barrow
Acquisition
Donation, 27/5/1936
Measurements
height / mm:310
diameter / mm:283 (rim)
Material
pottery
Location
In store
Categories
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