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LOT 686
Anglo-Saxon Decorated Funerary Urn
(Ceramic, 1.8 kg, 20 cm.).
Circa 5th-6th century AD. A large coil-made urn of globular form in dark brown fabric with conical shoulder and thin everted rim; below the shoulder a series of bosses and flanges in groups of three; to the shoulder a series of eccentric concentric lines.
Provenance
Found in a burial chamber on a building site near East Harling, Norfolk, UK in the late 1990's.
Footnotes
Recent studies have suggested that the form and decoration of such urns were representative of the social identity of the person interred.
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