Pottery / beaker / body / sherd

Description

Slightly curving body sherd from a fine-textured beaker decorated with bands of close-set lines of comb impressions and rows of diagonal jabbed impressions, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Borders, Early Bronze Age

Museum reference

X.1995.93.25

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / beaker / body / sherd

Date

Early Bronze Age

Materials

Pottery

Physical description

Pottery, slightly reddish-brown exterior and interior, core dark grey; decorated with bands of horizontal, close-set lines of comb impressions and rows of diagonal jabbed impressions

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