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Early Bronze Age pottery miniature vessel
Restored food vessel from many fragments, of gritty buff ware and biconical type, with flat-topped incurved rim and broad furrows around the girth and above the base. Decorated with 'maggot' impressions forming chevrons on the upper portion; horizontal lines in the girth and base furrows, diagonal lines on the lower portion, and radiating lines on the base. May also be called a 'food bowl' or 'Irish bowl'.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
75.36H/5
Find Information
Site Name: Maes-hwyaid Farm, Welsh St. Donats
Grid Reference: ST 0365 7555
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1970-1975
Notes: Found in fragments lying under the stone kerb of the barrow. This is a different barrow to the one from which the material under accession number 69.121 was found. The farm has also been referred to as Maes-y-Ward.
Measurements
height / mm:78.0
internal diameter / mm:70.0 (of rim)
diameter / mm
maximum diameter / mm:114.0 (of girth)
diameter / mm
weight / g:355.5
diameter / mm:60.0 (of base)
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