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Early Medieval pottery beaker
Rim fragment from a small fine thin-walled vessel, perhaps a Buston Beaker : Form E2. Very hard cream fabric with some quartz grit. The sherd is too small to determine the diameter of the vessel, but the angle is reasonably probable.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
62.203/E.220
Find Information
Site Name: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan
Grid Reference: ST 148 722
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1954-1958
Notes: Cut XVII, Layer (1), Context - Excavation conducted in the promontory fort and the adjoining hill-slope enclosure. Cwm George : Cwrt-yr-Ala Park
Acquisition
Donation, 14/6/1962
Measurements
weight / g:1.5
thickness / mm:4
Material
white ware
quartz tempered
grog tempered
iron ore tempered
Techniques
wheel-thrown
Location
In store
Categories
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