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Early Bronze Age pottery beaker
Long-necked type, of good ware with buff surface, burnished. The decoration consists mainly of reserved bar-chevrons on the neck and body with outlines of triangles finely notched with more coarsely notched fillings. Above and below the waist are herring-bone bands done with a pointed bone tool and framed by combed horizontal lines. There is a similar band immediately below the rim.
Clarke (1970) group S3(E).
Lanting and Van der Waals (1970) step 6.
Reconstructed element has been removed. Remaining pot has been cleaned and consolidated.
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Site Name: Riley's Tumulus, Candleston Castle
Notes: from a burial mound known as Riley's Tumulus 2km WSW of Candleston Castle, accompanying a secondary burial of a man. C3