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Pottery / pot / portion

Description

About half the base and walls of a pot with a brown slip outside and buff to pink fabric, Neolithic, excavated from a chambered cairn at Quanterness, Orkney

Museum reference

X.2004.1.6.2

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / pot / portion

Date

Neolithic

Physical description

Heavily tempered with small to medium grits, a brown slip outside being partly covered by sooty accretion, otherwise the fabric is buff to pink and rather friable where it has been burned

Collection place(s)

Quanterness, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Excavator: Renfrew, Colin, Professor, 1972 - 1977 (fl.)

References

Renfrew, A.C., Investigations in Orkney, Society of Antiquaries of London, Research and Report No. 38. London: 1979.

Links to other web pages

Canmore Site Record

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