Bowl
This is a fragment of a Neolithic pottery bowl from Membury in Devon. Pottery was a new invention in the Neolithic, and enabled the people living in farming communities to store and cook food and materials.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 446/2005
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Pearce, Nan, Mrs
- Material
- pottery
- Common Name
- bowl
- Simple Name
- bowl
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)