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LOT 0349
Stone Age Decorated Corded Ware Ceramic Vessel
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, EARLY 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
6 1/4 in. (760 grams, 16 cm wide).
A squat pot with carinated profile, slightly everted rim, band of impressed linear ornament to the neck and chevrons to the shoulder. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in the late 1950s.
From the family collection of a South East London collector.
See Briard, J., The Bronze Age in Barbarian Europe, London, 1979, for discussion.
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