Trevisker urn
This large pottery vessel was excavated in the 1870s from a barrow in North Devon. Jars like this were made for at least 1,000 years in prehistoric Devon and Cornwall, and are most often found on settlement sites, rather than in burials like this one.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- A6238
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- potteryTrevisker ware
- Common Name
- Trevisker urn
- Simple Name
- urn
- Period Classification
- Bronze Age (2600-700 BC)
