bell beaker
- Museum number
- 1905,0520.43
- Description
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Glass bell beaker: iridescent, translucent pale olive green; type as no 41; self-coloured trailing beneath rim; globular bowl with basal knob; flaring neck.
- Production date
- 5thC-6thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
Herpes, comm. Courbillac, c. Rouillac, arr. Angoulême, dép. Charente, France (based upon original photograph in private possession). This object may be one of the two 'verres sans pied à bouton' found 26th April, 1893 (Excavation diary)
Published:
BARRIÈRE-FLAVY C. 1901. Les Arts Industriels des Peuples Barbares de la Gaule du Vme au VIIIme Siècle, 3 vols. Toulouse and Paris, vol. III, p. 17, pl. LXXII:4
HARDEN D.B. 1975. Roman and Frankish Glass from France in the British Museum, Centenaire de l'Abbé Cochet 1975. Actes du Colloque International d'Archéologie Rouen 3 - 5 July 1975 II, Rouen, p. 308 pl. 2:15
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1905,0520.43
