collared urn

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Description

Summary: 1 small bi-conical urn with carinated profile and single suspension loop found with a burial on Monkton Downs, Winterbourne Monkton.

Research results

A Bronze Age miniature vessel, immitating a collared urn, recorded as being found by chance with a burial on Monkton Down, Winterbourne Monkton.

This vessel was re-examined by Copper (2017) as part of their Mphil with the University of Bradford, which covered all of the Early Bronze Age miniature vessels in Southern Britain. They divide the corpus into four groups: miniature, bi-conical, simple, and elaborate, and argue that most are derivations of late beaker and early food vessel imitations. Investigating the contexts of these vessels, they found that most were associated with primary cremations in round barrows, with no clear correlation with either age or sex – although noting that there was only limited evidence for the latter.

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