Pottery / bowl / rim / portion

Description

Portion of the rim of a decorated pottery carinated bowl, from Unstan chambered cairn, Orkney, Early Neolithic

Museum reference

X.EO 143

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / bowl / rim / portion

Materials

Ceramic

Physical description

Ceramic; two thirds of rim of decorated carinated bowl; deep concavity under the carination; some of the surface highly burnished; hatched neatly, lozenges and triangles in stab-and-drag technique with few stabs

Collection place(s)

Unstan, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe

Links to other web pages

Canmore

On display

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