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Iron Age wooden bowl
Sub-circular base
Wooden bowl, 400-100 BCE. Found at Breiddin hillfort, Welshpool, mid-Wales.
This fragile wooden bowl ia a rare survival from the Middle Iron Age. It was discovered by archaeologists preserved in waterlogged state at the base of an in-filled water tank during excavations at the Breiddin hillfort, near Welshpool in mid Wales. This bowl, of unknown wood species, was originally circular and probably turned on a pole lathe.
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Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
81.78H
Find Information
Site Name: The Breidden Hillfort, Criggion
Grid Reference: SJ 292 144
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1969-1976
Measurements
length / mm:202.0
width / mm:175.0
height / mm:120.0
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