Pottery / beaker

Description

Vessel of Beaker pottery, from a cist at Dairsie, Fife, Early Bronze Age, 2400 - 1800 BC

Museum reference

X.EQ 193

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / beaker

Date

Early Bronze Age

Physical description

Ceramic

Collection place(s)

Dairsie, Fife, Scotland, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• Art of Ceramics (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

J. Anderson 1887. Note of an urn and four arrow-heads of flint found in a cist at Dairsie, Fifeshire. PSAS 21, (1886-1887), 132-133

M.E.C. Mitchell 1934. A new analysis of Early Bronze Age Beaker pottery of Scotland. PSAS 68, (1933-34), 132-189

On display

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