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Pottery / urn / sherd

Description

Sherd of pottery, from Calf of Eday chambered cairn, Eday, Orkney

Museum reference

X.EO 617

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / urn / sherd

Materials

Clay

Physical description

Clay, red, hard; rim and wall fragments of three quarters of upper part of urn

Collection place(s)

Calf of Eday, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe

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