Bewes Hill, Food Vessel Urn

HER Number:
595

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Bewes Hill, Food Vessel Urn

Place:
Bewes Hill

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Religion or Ritual

Site Type: Broad:
Death Burial or Funerary Object

Site Type: Specific:
Cinerary Urn

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A Food Vessel Urn was found in May 1928 in a sand pit on the north side of Beweshill Lane, and presented to the Society of Antiquaries by Parker Brewis and J.D. Cowen. It is described variously as an 'Enlarged Food Vessel', a 'Food Vessel Urn' and an 'Encrusted Urn'. Its dimensions are 33.2 cm high x 29.3 cm rim diameter x 10.6 cm base diameter, and it displays several decorative features including whipped cord maggots, vertical and herringbone incisions, applied and incised chevrons and horizontal grooving.

Easting:
1670

Northing:
6293

Grid Reference:
NZ16706293

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 595 >> Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1931, Curator's Report for 1929, Vol. 4, IV (for 1929-30), pp. 46, 47, 140-1 P. Brewis & J.D. Cowen, 1929, An Encrusted Cinerary Urn of the Bronze Age, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, VI, pp. 197-8 A.M. Gibson, 1978, Bronze Age Pottery in the North-East of England, British Archaeological Report, British Series 56, pp. 85, 126 T.G. Cowie, 1978, Bronze Age Food Vessel Urns in Northern Britain, British Archaeological Report, British Series 55, pp. 84-5, fig. 7 on p. 144, no. 4 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 24, and fig. 5 p. 27, no. 8 Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks