Description

Summary: 1 Food vessel or accessory vessel, found with secondary cremation (?) in bowl barrow Bromham G2, near Oliver's Camp, excavated by B.H. Cunnington.

Research results

A miniature vessel found deposited within a chalk-capped cist underneath bowl barrow Bromham G2, near Oliver's Camp, excavated by B. H. Cunnington. The excavator suggested that the sherds from the vessel were so intermixed with the cremated remains that it was broken prior to deposition, a conical bone button was also found with cremation.

This vessel was re-examined by Copper (2017) as part of their Mphil with the University of Bradford, which covered all of the Early Bronze Age miniature vessels in Southern Britain. They divide the corpus into four groups: miniature, bi-conical, simple, and elaborate, and argue that most are derivations of late beaker and early food vessel imitations. Investigating the contexts of these vessels, they found that most were associated with primary cremations in round barrows, with no clear correlation with either age or sex – although noting that there was only limited evidence for the latter.