Pottery / beaker / body / sherd

Description

Body sherd from the lower part of a fine-textured all-over-comb decorated bell beaker, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Borders, Early Bronze Age

Museum reference

X.1995.93.26

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / beaker / body / sherd

Date

Early Bronze Age

Materials

Pottery

Physical description

Pottery, rich orange-brown exterior and part of core, rest of core a slightly greyer shade, interior light brown; exterior covered with horizontal lines of impressions of a square-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