Earthenware dish decorated in blue and white transfer with a Highlander, figure of Victory and names of Scottish military heroes

Part of a collection of fragments of ceramic vessels, from Modesty, Sandsting, Shetland

Part of a collection of fragments of ceramic vessels, from Modesty, Sandsting, Shetland

Part of a collection of fragments of ceramic vessels, from Modesty, Sandsting, Shetland

Three sherds of a flat-rimmed vessel, from Glenluce Sands, Wigtownshire, Late Neolithic

Part of a pottery bowl with single rounded rim, from Glenluce Sands, Wigtownshire, Late Neolithic

Bucket-shaped cinerary urn from Glenluce Sands, Wigtownshire

Neolithic pottery (Keramik) sherds, from Sondersted, Sjaelland, Denmark

Rim sherd of pottery (Keramik), Neolithic, from Denmark

Ceramic urn from Fair Isle, Shetland, Middle Bronze Age, 1800 - 1200 BC

Collared pottery urn, from Quarryford, Gifford, East Lothian, Middle Bronze Age, 2000 - 1500 BC

Encrusted pottery urn with band of raised zigzags and bosses on upper part, from Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Middle Bronze Age

Food vessel pottery urn of fine baked clay, finely ornamented, from Woodhead, Dunning, Perth and Kinross, Early Bronze Age

Pottery vessel, from Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Accessory cup from Kirkpark, Musselburgh, Early Bronze Age, 2050 - 1500 BC

Accessory cup of unusual form and very elaborate ornamentation, from Kirkpark, Musselburgh, Early Bronze Age, 2050 - 1500 BC