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A French butter dish is a container used to maintain the freshness and spreadable consistency of butter without refrigeration. This late 19th-century French-designed pottery crock has two parts: a base that holds water, and a cup to hold the packed butter which also serves as a lid. The cup containing butter is placed into the base, where water ...
A butter dish is defined as "a usually round or rectangular dish often with a drainer and a cover for holding butter at table". [1] Before refrigerators existed, a covered dish made of crystal, silver, or china housed the butter. [2] These butter dishes were made to hold the traditional round shape of butter at the time and came with an "ice ...
The Bell Beaker culture, also known as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell Beaker phenomenon, is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used at the very beginning of the European Bronze Age, arising from around 2800 BC. Bell Beaker culture lasted in Britain from c. 2450 BC, with the appearance of single ...
Mississippian culture pottery. Mississippian culture pottery is the ceramic tradition of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE) found as artifacts in archaeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast. It is often characterized by the adoption and use of riverine (or more rarely marine) shell- tempering agents in the clay paste. [1]
Beaker (archaeology) 9-10th century beaker from Iran. Blown and relief-cut glass. New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. In archaeology, a beaker is a small round ceramic or metal cup, a drinking vessel shaped to be held in the hands. It has no handle or spout, and generally no spreading foot (base).
Salisbury Museum. The Amesbury Archer is an early Bronze Age (Bell Beaker) man whose grave was discovered during excavations at the site of a new housing development (grid reference SU16324043 [1]) in Amesbury near Stonehenge. The grave was uncovered in May 2002. The man was middle aged when he died, estimated between 35 and 45, [2] and is ...