basket
- Museum number
- 2011,8036.42.a-b
- Description
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Lidded basket, rectangular, plaited rush, with horizontal plain weave.
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.30 centimetres
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Length: 17 centimetres
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Width: 10.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The form would be created over a wood mould. Similar shallow rush basketry trays were also made in Sweden, see Luigi Lao (ed), 'European Folk Art', exhibition catalogue, Cagliari 1984, pp. 144-5, made by Anita Storvall, in Kronoby on the west coast of Sweden.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2011
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2011,8036.42.a-b