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Lot Essay
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V. Evison, 'Glass vessels in England, AD 400-1100', in J. Price (ed.), Glass in Britain and Ireland AD 30-1100, British Museum Occasional Paper 127, London 2000, pp. 63, 74, group 30.3.
W. Stephens, Early Medieval Glass Vessels Found in Kent, BAR British Series 424, Oxford 2006, pp. 58-59, no. 5.
This variety of bell beaker, probably from North-West France or Belgium, (Harden's group V,a,ii), is one of the more common and characteristic forms of Merovingian glass found on the Continent, although examples with tooled decoration are more unusual (cf. J.Y. Feyeux and P. Prin, 'Epoque Merovingienne', in Verre et Merveilles. Mille ans de verre dans le nord-ouest de la Gaule, Guiry-en-Vexin, 1993, pp. 87, 97-8, pl. 2mT.52). Only two other examples are recorded from Kent, from Woodnesborough and Monkton, near Thanet, (Evison, op. cit, 2000, p. 63).
V. Evison, 'Glass vessels in England, AD 400-1100', in J. Price (ed.), Glass in Britain and Ireland AD 30-1100, British Museum Occasional Paper 127, London 2000, pp. 63, 74, group 30.3.
W. Stephens, Early Medieval Glass Vessels Found in Kent, BAR British Series 424, Oxford 2006, pp. 58-59, no. 5.
This variety of bell beaker, probably from North-West France or Belgium, (Harden's group V,a,ii), is one of the more common and characteristic forms of Merovingian glass found on the Continent, although examples with tooled decoration are more unusual (cf. J.Y. Feyeux and P. Prin, 'Epoque Merovingienne', in Verre et Merveilles. Mille ans de verre dans le nord-ouest de la Gaule, Guiry-en-Vexin, 1993, pp. 87, 97-8, pl. 2mT.52). Only two other examples are recorded from Kent, from Woodnesborough and Monkton, near Thanet, (Evison, op. cit, 2000, p. 63).