bowl

Beech wood bowl, used by travellers for holding cheese

Late: 1922 Period:

H: 91 mm Dia: 136 mm

Europe Greece

Hasluck, Margaret

wood beech.wood

Urns were the dominant type of pottery used in burials, usually of a cremated body, during the early Bronze Age, about 1450-1250BC. They are found both in cemeteries and as secondary burials in barrows, often with the base uppermost, and may be accompanied by other grave goods. An urn is tall with a flat, often very narrow base, and may be decorated. There are collared and cordoned urns, two separate pottery traditions. This is a cordoned urn with two low mouldings or cordons. The collar area and internal bevelled rim are decorated with comb-impression cross-hatching. The urn was found at Seggiecrook, Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire in 1907, protected by a small cist. The urn contained cremated human bone, a bead-like toggle and several clay beads or pinheads.

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