accessory cup

Unknown artist

2200 BC-1600 BC

pottery; incised; impressed; pointillé; perforated

British Museum

Accessory vessel; pottery; Aldbourne Cup; incised; internally, two rows of short diagonal strokes between single horizontal lines above zone of upright triangles filled with pointillé, bordered beneath by horizontal line; externally, zone of herring-bone with spaces alternately filled with pointillé and reserved, enclosed between single horizontal lines; on lower… body, zone of jabbed impressions above single horizontal line; on base, two concentric rows of impressions; one pair of perforations.View more about description Kinnes 1994 Description of site: Isolated barrow at 150 m OD on slope of dry valley in dissected chalk downland.