collared urn
- Museum number
- 1879,1209.1722
- Description
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Pottery collared urn. Decoration: On the collar and neck there are two rows respectively of very coarse whipped cord maggots-deeply impressed, and a further row just below the shoulder. At one place just below the collar in the upper part of the neck, two holes have been bored after firing - 15 ins apart, 5/8 in. external diam., 3/8 in., internal diam.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 333 millimetres (mouth)
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Height: 300 millimetres (surviving)
- Curator's comments
- Longworth 1984
Publications: J. Abercromby (1912) 'A Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland and its Associated Grave-Goods', Oxford, Clarendon Press, II, fig. 131; F. Elgee (1930) 'Early Man in N.E. Yorkshire', 83; I. H. Longworth (1961) The origins and development of the Primary Series in the Collared Urn Tradition in England and Wales, 'P.P.S.', XXVII, 263-306, no. 293.
Type of site: Round barrow.
Context: Inverted over cremation.
Associated grave goods: None.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1879,1209.1722