Find Spot record 4093/0/1 - Bronze Age pottery, west of Desborough

Bronze Age pottery found in 1908 from quarries west of the town.

{1} Fragments of three Bronze Age collared urns were found in a store-room at Desborough Co-operative society. They are now on loan to Northampton Museum. Two were found in 1908.
One is a large collared uwn with about a quarter of the lower body missing. It has an internal rim-bevel decorated with an incised chevron design, a conves collar decorated with six to eight discontinuous grooves and the neck with eight continuous grooves. It has a plain body and small base. It was found in 1908 inverted over burnt human bone.
The other is a collared urn recovered in fragments from a box of geological specimens. It is almost complete and biconical in form. The rim-bevel and neck are decorated with horse-shoe shaped impressions and the collar with stroke filled alternating triangles all executed in twisted cord. It was found about 1908 perhaps 'in fragments along with cremated bone'.

{4} There are three other Collared Urns in NM, two of which were found in 1908 from ironstone quarries west of the town.

<1> Brown, A E (ed), 1972, Northamptonshire Archaeology, 7/2+3 (Journal). SNN25623.

<2> 1915, Proceedings of The Society of Antiquaries, 27/123+4 (Uncertain). SNN24711.

<3> 1909, Proceedings of The Society of Antiquaries, 22/333+334 (Uncertain). SNN24712.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 33/Site 2 (Series). SNN77380.

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