urn
- Museum number
- 1879,1209.1426
- Description
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Pottery food-vessel urn. Rim bevel decorated by what appears to be one and a half rows of incised herringbone with a groove below the complete line. The groove seems to have circular impressions in it, and two similar features appear on the rim moulding with sloping incision between them. In the neck are roughly incised filled triangles or chevrons and the belly is covered with incised filled triangles. The bottom of the rim moulding and the shoulder are decorated with applied pellets of clay with vertical incised lines on them.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 103 millimetres (base)
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Diameter: 318 millimetres (mouth)
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Height: 380 millimetres
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Weight: 343 grammes
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Thickness: 6.82 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Gibson 1978
Secondary burial in the centre of a barrow. Inverted on the primary cist cover over the cremated remains of a man and a woman. With a flint artifact 1¾ in. long by 1¼ in. wide.
- Location
- On display (G51/dc11)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1984 5 Sep-15 Oct, Belgium, Tournai, Halle aux Drapes, Au Temps de Stonehenge
- Acquisition date
- 1879
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1879,1209.1426