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Pottery / food vessel

Description

Lopsided globular bowl food vessel, intact, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Borders, Early Bronze Age

Museum reference

X.1995.93.16

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / food vessel

Date

Early Bronze Age

Materials

Pottery

Physical description

Pottery, rich orange-brown exterior with grey mottles, interior rich red-brown with one small dark patch, inclusions fairly abundant; incised and impressed decoration of rows of jabs, faint impressions of whipped cord 'maggots', and roughly horizontal lines

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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