Casgliadau Arlein

A large cinerary urn of Collared Rim Type recovered from a barrow in Pembrokeshire as a result of quarrying.

The urn was found inverted and placed upright on a stone slab. The rim and about 4 inches of the neck were intact, the rest of the vessel had been crushed under the weight of earth. Within the vessel were found cremated remains that weren't recovered alongside a small intact 'pigmy cup' (23.455/2). Between recovery and restoration in the National Museum of Wales, the intact rim seems to have been fractured. The vessel was initially reconstructed in the National Museum of Wales but is now kept in a fractured state.

The vessel itself is a Collared-rim type, of good ware with a grey buff surface. The form is bipartite with very deep collar and deep internal bevel to the rim, which is carefully modelled. Decoration: running zig-zag on internal bevel of rim, enclosed by horizontal lines, all corded; on collar: herring-bone pattern of shallow oval impressions (many of which have one end trifid) enclosed above by five corded lines, below by three wide shallow grooves.