Pottery / food vessel

Description

Bipartite vase food vessel, restored and complete but for fragment of base, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Borders, Early Bronze Age, 2200 - 1650 BC

Museum reference

X.1995.93.14

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / food vessel

Date

Early Bronze Age

Materials

Pottery

Physical description

Pottery, interior and exterior surfaces mottled red-brown, and light to dark brown, core blackish-red, inclusions abundant; internal bevel and whole of exterior covered by impressed decoration of varying depths, mostly of loosely-whipped cord 'maggots'

Collection place(s)

West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

References

Hunter, Fraser, Excavation of an Early Bronze Age cemetery and other sites at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Scottish Borders, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 130 (2000), 115-182

Links to other web pages

Canmore Site Record