Restored pot with decoration of scratched lines forming multiple chevrons, from Glenluce Sands, Wigtownshire

Pottery, from Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Incomplete carinated pot, from Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Pottery vessel, from Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Pottery vessel, from Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Two-handled rather globular pot with everted rim (two-thirds of which is missing), from Denmark

Pottery vessel, from an unknown locality, Iron Age

Globular pottery vessel, from Unival chambered cairn, North Uist, Western Isles

Carinated pottery vessel, from Unival chambered cairn, North Uist, Western Isles, Early Neolithic

Almost complete weakly carinated pottery vessel, from Unival chambered cairn, North Uist, Western Isles, Neolithic

Ovoid pottery vessel, from Unival chambered cairn, North Uist, Western Isles

Cast of a Neolithic pot, found in the chambered cairn at Largie, Argyll and Bute

Pottery vessel, from a stone circle at Loanhead of Daviot, Aberdeenshire

Pottery vessel, from a stone circle at Loanhead of Daviot, Aberdeenshire

Elongated scraper of dark grey flint and a small fragment of pot, from Hagg Wood, Foulden, Borders

Pottery / portion, from a cave at Kildalton House, Islay, Argyll