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Urn from Doll Tor
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Urn from Doll Tor
Dimensions : Height 8.5, rim diameter 7cm, base diameter 5.6cm.
Site name : Doll Tor
Site type : Burial site; Ceremonial site
Time period : Bronze Age
Material : Baked clay
Object type : Grave goods; Pottery
Museum number : 1981.1245
J. P. and J. C. Heathcote excavated at Doll Tor stone circle between 1931 and 1933. They found a series of burials in the circle and the cairn immediately to the east. These burials were found with a range of grave goods.
This is one of the Bronze Age urns which they recovered. It is a relatively simple example of the type. It was found with another urn and a flint scraper. They were with the burial of a child in the eastern cairn.
Bibliography :
Heathcote, J. P. , 1939
Glossary:
Bronze Age
Cairn
Capstone
Cist
Excavator
J. P. and J. C. Heathcote
Scraper
Stone circle
Urn
Related objects
Arrowhead from Doll Tor
One of the Collared urns from Stanton Moor
Bead from Doll Tor
One of the Collared urns from Stanton Moor
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