beaker
- Museum number
- 1870,0402.2
- Description
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Biconical glass beaker with high tubular base ring. Broken and mended, edge of base missing, greenish colourless. Very bubbly, some bubbles oval and in vertical alignment. Dull, weathering patch inside, strain cracks. Slightly everted curving rim, edge cracked off but not ground, concave upper body, angular carination, slightly convex lower body tapering in, constriction above high diagonal folded base ring with tubuar edge pushed up to form concave base with central kick and tooling marks at centre of base. Ring of wear on edge of base ring, part of broken edge shows nibbled re-touch, perhaps for fitting a make-shift edge of some other material.
- Production date
- 300-400
- Dimensions
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Height: 110 - 111 millimetres
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Diameter: 78 millimetres (base)
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Diameter: 78 millimetres (rim)
- Location
- On display (G1/wp193)
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1870,0402.2
