Bowl fragment
This is a fragment of a Neolithic pottery bowl from the site of Hembury 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.
- 129/1933/P178
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Liddell, Dorothy M
- Material
- pottery
- Common Name
- bowl fragment
- Simple Name
- vessel (sherd)
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
