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The Earlier Bronze Age
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Figure 5.5 Styles of Early Bronze Age storage pots used as cremation containers.
Source: Burgess 1980. Copyright Orion Books
globular fine wares, and for Trevisker wares of large storage, smaller storage, cooking pots and
three types of small vessels (Figure 5.6) (Woodward and Parker Pearson in Kinnes and Varndell
1995). The increasing regionality of ceramics can be paralleled by regional styles of Middle Bronze
Age palstave axes (Rowlands 1976), and Woodward has shown how Middle Bronze Age defended
hilltop settlements such as Ram’s Hill (Berkshire) and Norton Fitzwarren (Somerset) in southern
Britain lie at the interfaces between these styles, possibly controlling exchange relationships between
regions (Ellison 1981). Another interesting interpretation of this growing regionalism from the