Bowl
This is a reconstructed Neolithic pot from the site of Hembury in Devon. Pottery was a new invention in the Neolithic, and enabled the farming communities to store and cook food and materials.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 119/1931/P128
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Liddell, Dorothy M
- Material
- pottery
- Common Name
- bowl
- Simple Name
- vessel (reconstructed)
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)