Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Early Medieval pottery amphora
Characteristic sherd from a Bi amphora, with deep spiral grooving. Fairly hard, fine, pinkish-buff fabric with the white inclusions typical of Bi, and exactly paralleled by sherds from Pembrokeshire, Ireland, and Sicily. This fragment is illustrated as representative of sixwith similar decoration; there are a further twenty-eight sherds in identical fabric but without ornament. The overwhelming majority of these sherds come from C/D layersin the restricted area of Cut VI suggesting strongly that they are all from a single vessel. It has not, however, proved possible to attempt a reconstruction, for very few of the sherds join one another.
Pwnc
Rhif yr Eitem
Gwybodaeth am y darganfyddiad
Enw'r Safle: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan
Nodiadau: Section 10; Cut VI, Layer (3B); Context C/D C: Black, usually greasy soil, with small angular rubble; much bone, charcoal flecking; rich in finds. D: Large, often slabby stones, with smaller stones interspersed; dark humus-soil; relatively few bones or finds. Excavation conducted in the promontory fort and the adjoining hill-slope enclosure. Cwm George : Cwrt-yr-Ala Park