Pottery / food vessel

Description

Bipartite vase food vessel, reconstructed and virtually complete, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Borders, Early Bronze Age

Museum reference

X.1995.93.2

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / food vessel

Date

Early Bronze Age

Materials

Pottery

Physical description

Pottery, exterior surface mottled buff and grey-brown, core dark grey-brown, interior grey-brown, fabric heavily gritted; exterior covered with bands of impressed decoration, mostly faint and mostly made using a squarish-toothed comb

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