briquetage

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Object Type
Museum number: 1868,1228.244
Description: Two fired clay briquetage fragments. Long spool shape and cylindrical body with indentation in surviving end. Surface is grey-brown and brick red-grey, polished. Organic temper.
Cultures/periods: Neolithic (?); Bronze Age (?); Iron Age (?)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Burg Giebichenstein
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 32 millimetres (body); Length: 71 millimetres (no.1); Length: 74 millimetres (no.2)
Curator's comments: Orlinska 2001 Findspot: Halle (Saale) – Giebichenstein; "near Giebichenstein near Halle"; Sachsen-Anhalt. Salt Mining and Salt Making Centre (see Riehm 1954, 113, fig. 1). References: GA no. 1196 ('Clay cylinder candle-holder [...]' ‘Giebichenstein b. Halle’). 'found between two urns'
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1868,1228.244
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: Klemm.5191

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