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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

This urn was found in the cairn at Doll Tor stone circle. It was with a burial numbered F by the excavators. It lay on one side of a large flat stone. The Heathcotes thought that the stone might be the capstone of a cist. However, they found nothing underneath it to confirm this. There was however, another burial on the opposite side of the same stone. It must have had some significance. It lay next to the remains of a cist containing anther burial.

Burial F was that of a child, with two urns and a flint scraper. This urn is the smaller of the two. It is small, plain and undecorated. The larger urn is poorly preserved. It has some crude decoration on its collar.

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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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