Chapter 11 No.11

Bronze-Age Pottery

Fig. 80.-Incense cup.

Fig. 81.-Cinerary urn.

Fig. 82.-Food-vessel with cover, Danesfort, Co. Kilkenny.

In Ireland the pottery of the Bronze Age is principally represented by the type of vessel known as a food-vessel. We may commence with these, as there has only been one undoubted find of beakers made: this consisted