Casgliadau Arlein

Patera with bulging wall and flaring foot. The band of incised decoration below the lip appears to be a series of vertical incisions c. 3 mm apart and c. 9.5 mm high, described elsewhere as a palisade motif. The handle had the well-known disc-shaped terminal with a central hole and moulded edge, with an inner ring-shaped border decorated with punchmarks to suggest a guilloche or cord pattern. On the upper side of the handle just in from the disc terminal there is a band of nine small dot-and-circle punch marks, and beyond this in a triangular panel a series of dots, circles, and dot-and-double-circle punch decoration. There are no signs of any maker's stamp. Part of the wall of the vessel has been damaged, but most of the fragments have been preserved. The base with the characteristic heavily turned underside is intact.