bell beaker
- Museum number
- 1905,0520.44
- Description
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Glass bell beaker: iridescent, translucent colourless; rounded bowl with basal knob; short, vertical walls; flaring mouth; zone of clear trailing beneath rim; cracked, some fragments missing on one side.
- Production date
- 5thC-6thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
Herpes, comm. Courbillac, c. Rouillac, arr. Angoulême, dép. Charente, France (possibly the second glass 'sans pied à bouton' mentioned in the Excavation diary; see 1905,0520.43)
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. LXXIII:2
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Repaired.
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1905,0520.44
