Description

Summary: 1 reversible incense cup, with its inside base at waist height allowing it to be used upside down, decorated with impressed cord in two bands of zigzags with two parallel lines either side of each and one around the inside rim (also perforated four times for suspension) found with a primary cremation in Bowl barrow Winterbourne Stoke G65, excavated by William Cunnington.

Research results

A Bronze Age miniature vessel, with a mouth at both ends, found with a primary cremation in the bowl barrow Winterbourne Stoke G65, excavated by William Cunnington in the early 1800s.

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.