Urn

All prehistoric pottery was made by hand; the potter’s wheel had not yet been invented. Pots were sometimes used as urns, besides their normal domestic purposes. The ashes from the funeral pyre and the deceased’s cremated remains were placed in the urn and interred in an urnfield. Some urns display simple decorations; this one is embellished with fine, so-called Kerbschnitt ornamentation, consisting of lines and triangles incised on the shoulder. The pot is closed with a decorated lid.