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Early Bronze Age pottery collared urn
This vessel has a reddish brown oxidised surface. It has a simple rim a weak shoulder and a pronounced collar. The decoration on the collar comprises cord impressed horizontal and parallel lines at top and base, separated by a herringbone design (also cord impressed) in the centre. Below the collar, a single cord impressed herringbone design is separated from a double cord impressed herringbone pattern by a border of two horizontal cord impressed lines. Most of the base of the vessel has survived, however, over two thirds of the upper body and rim is reconstructed. Longworth (1984) Primaryy Series, Northwestern Style, Form IIIb
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
41.300/3
Find Information
Site Name: South Hill Barrow, Talbenny
Grid Reference: SM 833 111
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1941
Notes: secondary deposit
Acquisition
Donation, 5/12/1941
Measurements
height / mm:265
diameter / mm:internal rim 200
diameter / mm:max. girth 240
diameter / mm:base 93
weight / g:2504.1
Material
pottery
Location
In store
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