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Dod Law excavation - site object 31

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Current location: Museum: Museum of Antiquities

Displacement history: Obtained via excavation

Displacement history comments:
 
Recovered during the excavation of the Iron Age fort by Dr Chris Smith (Smith 1989). Excavation site object number: 31

Found in area C, found in loose stones heaped on outcrop, and probably broken from outcrop.

Topography: Not Recorded


Panel type:

  • Portable Reused Stone

Panel dimensions: Not Recorded

Cultural period: Prehistoric


General notes:
 
By the time the Iron Age fort and its enclosures were built, the significance of the markings may have faded away, so that the marked rock-surfaces became merely sources of building material.
 

Motifs:  Pick marks: at least 1 foundSingle or multiple cups: at least 1 found

Art description:

The portable is 20cm. at its thickest, the cup is 2cm. deep, conical, and 5cm. diameter, and there are stray pick marks.

 

 
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