Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Early Bronze Age pottery food vessel
Of a dark grey to brown smoothed surface, the form is that of a shouldered food-vase with vestigial double shoulder groove, bridged by seven unperforated lugs; the decoration consists of fifteen broad horizontal furrows at regular intervals from shoulder to base, the intervening ridges and the flat top of the rim being decorated with vertical or slanting incisions or a false-relief pattern executed with the finger-nail, and transverse incisions on the raised vertical edges of the lugs. Of hybrid Anglo-Irish type.
LI7.3b
Pwnc
Rhif yr Eitem
Gwybodaeth am y darganfyddiad
Enw'r Safle: Disgwylfa Fawr, Melindwr
Nodiadau: Found with a cremation and two dug-out tree trunks in a round barrow on the summit of Disgwylfa Fawr. The food vessel was found with a small flint blade (now lost) and cremated human bones in the hollow portion of the smaller tree trunk (37.705/2), which was 1 foot above the larger tree trunk (37.705/1) and 5 feet below the surface of the barrow.