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Early Bronze Age pottery miniature vessel
Of exceptionally good thick ware, with dark grey well-smoothed surface. Well finished biconical form with flat, internally sloping rim and two perforations 50mm apart, just above the carination. The decoration consists of grooves, forming two friezes of hatched triangles between horizontal lines above the carination, a cruciform pattern comprising four triangles, two of which are concentric and two cross-hatched, on the slightly convex base, and vertical or slightly diagonal lines on the rim. There are traces of red colouring matter in the incisions.
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Site Name: Breach Farm, Llanblethian
Notes: From the central burial pit of a kerbed round barrow, 250m north-west of the farm. A tanged copper alloy chisel and a small copper alloy knife in the final stages of disintegration could be seen in outline but could not be preserved.
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