Accession No

1898.62


Description

Beaker with unmoulded rim and slight waist, decorated with horizontal zig-zag bands and dotted lines


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Barnwell


Period

Bronze Age


Source

Poignand, Malcolm (Dr)


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1898.62


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Beaker with unmoulded rim and slight waist, decorated with horizontal zig-zag bands and dotted lines
Event Date 1898
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Found in top layer of red sand, a skeleton reported to have been found near it. July 1898.
Event Date 07/1898
Author: maa


Context (References)
Abercromby, John. (1904) 'A Proposed Chronological Arrangement of the Drinking-Cup or Beaker Class of Fictilia in Britain.' Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. vol. 38. pp. 323-410. No. 57.
Event Date 1904
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (References)
Clark, J. Grahame D. (1938). 'Early Man'. The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. Salzman, L.F. (ed). Vol. 1. p. 263.
Event Date 1938
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


FM:10337

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