jar
- Museum number
- ML.2670
- Description
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Shouldered pottery jar, with no evidence of handle. Exterior burnished and interior smoothed. Firing dark; dark grey-brown.
- Curator's comments
- Stead and Rigby 1999
No rim sherds present, perhaps trimmed in antiquity.
Context:
Shouldered vessels: Vessels with a definite S-shaped profile produced by a neck constriction and rounded shoulder, but exhibiting considerable typological variety. Pots of similar shape and proportion have been arranged together, but there are almost as many subtypes as examples. Shouldered shapes with deep and well-marked rim were current in north-western Europe from Hallstatt C until the end of La Tène I when they were replaced by types with the rim sharply divided from the body with offset or cordons.
Bibliography: Morel, L., 1898, ‘La Champagne souterraine’ Reims, pl. 24, fig. 18.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.2670