Pottery / bowl / rim / fragment

Description

Rim fragments of a decorated carinated bowl, from Unstan chambered cairn, Orkney, Early Neolithic

Museum reference

X.EO 146

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / bowl / rim / fragment

Materials

Ceramic

Physical description

Ceramic; rim fragments of decorated carinated bowl, bevelled to outside; coarse stab-and-drag lines, two horizontal with below reverse triangles hatched horizontally and obliquely; uneven burnished surface, mostly dark

Collection place(s)

Unstan, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe

Links to other web pages

Canmore

On display

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