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LOT 1616
Bronze Age Ceramic Vessel Grave Group
EARLY BRONZE AGE, CIRCA 4000-2000 B.C.
2 - 2 7/8 in. (486 grams total, 49-74 mm).
Earthenware vessel group comprising four with two opposed loop handles to the rim and two with a single thick loop handle; accompanied by an old collector's record card stating: 'Grave Group' of Pots. Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (4000-2000 BC). Central or S.E. Europe. Probably made for funerary use as they are too small to have been of practical value. The contents of a single grave (or at least 2-3 adjacent graves).' [6]
Provenance
From the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK.
He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s.
Literature
See A Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age London, 1920, pl.IX, for similar forms of vessel.
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