Pottery / food vessel

Description

Bipartite vase food vessel, intact and in excellent condition, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Borders, Early Bronze Age

Museum reference

X.1995.93.11

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / food vessel

Date

Early Bronze Age

Materials

Pottery

Physical description

Pottery, buff throughout with occasional light grey mottles on the exterior and patches of thin blackish encrustation on the interior; intact and in excellent condition except for patch of slight surface erosion on one side; internal bevel, and whole of exterior to base, covered with whipped cord 'maggot' decoration

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

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