Pottery / food vessel

Description

Pottery food vessel, from a short cist at Bridgeness, West Lothian, Early Bronze Age

Museum reference

X.EE 171

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / food vessel

Date

Early Bronze Age

Style / Culture

Bronze Age

Materials

Ceramic

Physical description

Ceramic; almost complete, wanting part of lower body/base (modern damage ?), some poor plaster restoration; horizontal lines of comb impressions, triangular jabs, circular punctulations, obliquely set impressions; organic encrustation

Collection place(s)

Bridgeness, West Lothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

References

Callander, J.G. 1924. 'A short cist containing a food-vessel and human remains at Bridgeness, West Lothian', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 58 (1923-24), 286-94.