Context (Field collection)
The catalogue card says: "The site of the find is marked on the Museum copy of O.S. 6" XXXVI Cambs." also marked "d.d.", but no donor is named. Found in Chippenham Park. No details of grave. Found by donor. The beaker and skeleton were found during military excavations, and no observations were made of the type of grave etc.; but the two officers who brought them in were positive that the skeleton had been in a crouched position. O.S. XXXVI S.E.

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
A-type, fine ware, black in fracture, with buff surface, slightly burnished and with uneven reddish patches; simple notched decoration, consisting of 4 zones, evenly spaced, each made up of short vertical notched lines enclosed by 2 or 3 bands ofhorizontal notched lines; and a band of notched lattice pattern; Found accompanying crouched skeleton
Event Date 1944
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Student object project by Grahame Appleby on this object in the archive. [Archive number unknown, possibly not yet assigned. 19/8/2021 Imogen Gunn]
Event Date 28/4/2003
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Kohring, Sheila. (2011) Social Complexity as a Multi-Scalar Concept: Pottery Technologies, 'Communities of Practice and the Bell Beaker Phenomenon', Norwegian Archaeological Review, 44:2, 145-163, Fig. 2.
Event Date 2011
Author: Imogen Gunn