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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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Site Name: Llandaff, Cardiff
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.