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1884.37.109

Wheel-made urn of dark grey ware with a globular, tapering to base, rounded body and a neck tapering to mouth and striated at the neck. [ASh [OPS move] 06/05/2016]

1884.37.109

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Collection type
Object
Description
Wheel-made urn of dark grey ware with a globular, tapering to base, rounded body and a neck tapering to mouth and striated at the neck. [ASh [OPS move] 06/05/2016]
Geographical reference
France
Europe > Western Europe > France
Picardie Somme Abbeville
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Early Medieval Archaeological period: Merovingian
Date collected
By 1874
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Process Thrown, Process Incised
Dimensions
Height: max 158 mm, Diameter: max 166 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.37.109 PR Cat other PR nos: 1983
Research and responses

According to Chapman Pitt Rivers visited Abbeville ['the Somme sites'] and brought facsimiles of Abbeville material for his own collection. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Search terms: Vessel, Pottery

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