4,000-Year-Old Grave in Wales Yields Intact Beaker

News November 1, 2016

(Courtesy TG Group)
SHARE:
Wales intact pottery
(Courtesy TG Group)

GWYNEDD, WALES—The Daily Post reports that a 4,000-year-old cemetery has been unearthed by contract archaeologists at the Cefn Graianog Quarry. They found two graves lined with stone slabs, the larger of which contained two pots known as beakers. The smaller of the two pots was found damaged and had to be carefully reconstructed, explained Iwan Parry of Brython Archaeology, while the larger pot was found intact. The site has also yielded Bronze Age pits containing charcoal and pottery. For more, go to “Letter from Wales: Hillforts of the Iron Age.”

  • Features September/October 2016

    Romans on the Bay of Naples

    A spectacular villa under Positano sees the light

    Read Article
    Marco Merola
  • Features September/October 2016

    Worlds Within Us

    Pulled from an unlikely source, ancient microbial DNA represents a new frontier in the study of the past—and modern health

    Read Article
    (Courtesy LMAMR, University of Oklahoma)
  • Letter from Rotterdam September/October 2016

    The City and the Sea

    How a small Dutch village became Europe's greatest port

    Read Article
    (© Bureau Oudheidkundig Onderzoek Rotterdam)
  • Artifacts September/October 2016

    Anglo-Saxon Workbox

    Read Article
    (Courtesy Wessex Archaeology)