'Stonehenge' Barrel Urn

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Description

Summary: The 'Stonehenge' Barrel Urn (one of the largest known) is tub shaped with thick straight sides and a broad flat rim on which are a band of circular fingerprint impressions and below which are three bands of nodules running around the collar forming the top of ten vertical cord-like lines running in relief from the base to the collar found with a primary or secondary cremation inside (and covered with a stone slab) in the bronze age bowl barrow, Amesbury G3, excavated by William Cunnington


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