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Early Bronze Age pottery beaker

Oxidised exterior and interior surfaces (orange brown) and reduced core (black) long necked form. Complex design: neck composed of incised zig zag banding Neck serarated from girth by an empty border. Girth comprising herring bone design. Lower zone comprised of chevron design with hanging chevrons filled with impressed design. Portable comb impressed desgin. Clarke (1970) developed southern British group (52) Langting and Van der Waals (1972) Step 5 or Step 6 beaker

Beaker with fine-toothed comb pattern from Llandaff, Cardiff, 2250-2050 BCE

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Early Bronze Age pottery beaker
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Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

92.10H/1

Find Information

Site Name: Llandaff, Cardiff

Collection Method: chance find
Date: 1991 / Sep

Notes: found in forecourt of 79 Riversdale found whilst owner digging service trench The beaker was found within a burial cist, alongside a bronze awl, a flint flake and a single inhumation.

Acquisition

Purchase, 29/1/1992

Measurements

internal diameter / mm:102-106 (rim)
diameter / mm
height / mm:158-160
circumference / mm:115
weight / g:676.8
length / mm:71 (of neck)
diameter / mm:76 (of base)
thickness / mm:6-7 (wall)

Material

pottery

Location

St Fagans Gweithdy gallery : Prehistoric and Roman Pottery

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