Cup
This small cup is a rare survival as it is made from a shale which usually rapidly disintegrates when excavated from the ground. It was found in 1870 with a cremation, tree bark, a cairn of stones and a bronze dagger. The tree bark may have been the remains of a coffin.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- A344a
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Kirwan, Mr
- Material
- shale, Kimmeridge?
- Common Name
- cup
- Simple Name
- cup
- Period Classification
- Early Bronze Age (2600-1600 BC)
