Casgliadau Arlein

Several rim and body sherds of vesicular fabric with a burnished external surface. The vessel is a barrel shaped jar with a gently sloping shoulder and rounded rim with a deep internal bevel with two grooves above. Externally the neck of the jar is decorated a pair of horizontal furrows beneath the rim, a row of stamped 'half moon' decoration with a band of oblique tooled lines below. Vessels with similar stamped decoration have been found at Croft Ambrey (Stanford, 1984), Midsummer Hill (Stanford, 1981) and Sutton Walls (Kenyon, 1954) although there are no exact parallels for the additional horizontal band decorated with oblique lines and the slightly more elaborate rim form.