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Pottery / urn, food vessel / fragment

Description

Fragment of a pottery food vessel, from Costerton Mains, Blackshiels, Midlothian, Early Bronze Age

Museum reference

X.EE 125

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / urn, food vessel / fragment

Date

Bronze Age

Style / Culture

Bronze Age

Materials

Pottery

Physical description

Half of urn, brown, restored; ornamented

Collection place(s)

Costerton Mains, Blackshiels, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

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