Collar urn
Collar urns ( English collared urns ) are a phenomenon of the early and middle Bronze Age to the British Isles . The two main forms are the two-fold and the three-fold body. Although there is a wide variety of shapes, the basic characters of the urn are a small base, a conical body, and a heavier overhanging edge (the collar) which is usually provided with incised or impressed decoration. The cord urn follows her .
Most of the urns were found in pits, some in stone boxes . They show a preference for shallow grave cemeteries ; few have been found in hills. The origin of the collar urn is perhaps in the "Fengate type" of the Middle Neolithic British Peterborough ware . Collar urns appear around 2000 BC. And are still before 1500 BC. Replaced by urns with continental affinity. Ian Longworth, who examined all known urns of this type, recognizes a typological dichotomy in the development over time. In Ireland , the urn is only represented in the eastern half of the island and there mainly in Ulster .
literature
- Ian H. Longworth: Collared urns of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland . Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1984. ISBN 0521085969
Individual evidence
- ^ Ian H. Longworth: Collared urns of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1984. ISBN 0521085969 , pp. 25-37.