Bewes Hill, Food Vessel Urn

HER Number

595

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Bewes Hill, Food Vessel Urn

Place

Bewes Hill

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Findspot

Site Type: Specific

Cinerary Urn

General Period

PREHISTORIC

Specific Period

Bronze Age -2,600 to -700

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

416700

Northing

562930

Grid Reference

NZ416700562930

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