Wooden bowl, 400-100 BCE. Found at Breiddin hillfort, Welshpool, mid-Wales.
This fragile wooden bowl ia a rare survival from the Middle Iron Age. It was discovered by archaeologists preserved in waterlogged state at the base of an in-filled water tank during excavations at the Breiddin hillfort, near Welshpool in mid Wales. This bowl, of unknown wood species, was originally circular and probably turned on a pole lathe.