Summary

Food vessel with parallel lines of impressed ornament and triangular indentations, found at Chlendry Farm, Lochinch, Wigtownshire, Early Bronze Age, 2200 - 1650 BC

Accession Number

X.EE 18

Other references

Original description

URNS OF FOOD VESSEL TYPE: Urn, 4 1/2 in. high, with parallel lines of impressed ornament & triangular indentations, found near Lochiel, Galloway. SD note, July 1999: Edited from SCRAN full data set. TGC note, March 2001, This food vessel is in fact believed to come from a cist discovered during the removal of a cairn on the farm of Clendrie (modern Chlendry, NGR: NX c 13 60). See Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, The Archaeological sites and monuments of east Rhins, Wigtown District, Dumfries and Galloway Region, The archaeological sites and monuments of Scotland series no 26, Edinburgh, p14, no 70.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Lochinch Chlendry Farm, Wigtownshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1879

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Earl of Stair

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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