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Clay beaker - view from above
Leeds Museums & Galleries
United Kingdom
Orange 'S' profile beaker with incised and impressed decoration. Concentric horizontal lines and short diagonal dash marks, with 5 larger impressed horizontal lines below rim. Has been reconstructed from remaining original pieces and infilled.
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Details
- Title: Clay beaker - view from above
- Date Created: c.2000 BC
- Physical Dimensions: object height: 210mm, object diameter (of rim): 165mm, object width (of base): 100mm, object weight: 924.7gm
- Provenance: Found in October 1973 in a sand and gravel quarry on the eastern slop of Park Hill to the south-west of West Tanfield. The quarry cut through the grave pit of a crouched inhumation burial of a c.25 year old male, buried with this beaker.
- Subject Keywords: Archaeology, Archaeology
- Type: Vessel
- Medium: clay
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