IRISH ANTIQUITY

Pot : urn : encrusted

Pot : urn : encrusted Rim has a short and sharp internal bevel decorated with herring-bone arrangement of 'wheat-sheaf' motif. Externally the area immediately below the rim is ornamented with a series of widely-shaped vertical ribs. This creates a panelled effect and is terminated by a cordon, from which hang a series of independent rounded chevrons. Within these chevrons and the spaces which seperate them, applied bosses are placed. This is the limit of the applied decoration. The applied strips and the background to these designs are decorated with the same 'wheat-sheaf' motif as was used internally on the rim. The remainder of the vessel is divided into zones of incised chevron motifs whose background decoration is made up of 'wheat-sheaf' pattern and a bird-bone impression.

ceramic

County Down
County Down

1851
1851

BELUM.A331.1911

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