Collections Online
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Advanced Search
Early Bronze Age pottery beaker
Of well fired thick ware with buff surface. Of short-necked type, decorated in zones with rows of oblique incisions and lines of circular stabbed dots. The decoration does not go below the greatest bulge of the body. Extensively restored.
Collection Area
Item Number
Find Information
Site Name: LLancaiach-isaf Farm, Gelligaer
Notes: retrieved, along with the cist of five stone slabs and a badly broken skull, by R.E.M. Wheeler on 18.3.22. The burial had been discovered in the above year (as reported in the Western Mail, 19.7.01) but the beaker, with the remains of the skull found beside it, was put back in the cist and the matter was forgotten until 1922. The beaker was badly broken on retrieval. The skull was that of a child aged about six years. Some 'ornaments' were also apparently discovered, but are now lost.