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Iron Age pottery bowl / jar
Rim shed of a smalll jar or bowl with incipient bead rim. Quite hard fabric containing moderate calcite inclusions up to 2mm across. Brown/grey ot black surfaces, horizontally burnished externally, and grey core. This fabric is characteristic of middle to late Iron Age pottery in Wales. Comparable examples have been found at Sudbrook (Nash-Williams, 1939), Llanmelin (Nash-Williams, 1933) and Mynydd Bychan (Savory, 1955).
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
26.239/30.1
Find Information
Site Name: Candleston Castle, Merthyr Mawr Warren
Notes: From an Early Iron Age settlement site about 1000m WSW of the Castle, at foot of limestone ridge.
Acquisition
donation, 25/5/1926
Measurements
diameter / mm:90
weight / g:7
Techniques
Hand made
Burnished
Ceramic Surface Finish
Material
Pottery
Calcite tempered
Location
In store
Categories
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