Summary

Pottery food vessel from Blackness, West Lothian

Accession Number

X.EE 150

Other references

Original description

FOOD-VESSELS: Foodvessel, fine brown outer surface, friable black core with large grits, concave collar below rim 1.5" deep, base lacks outer surface; decorated with cord impressions, slanting lines between horizontal lines on rim bevel, groups of horizontal and vertical lines on collar, horizontal lines on shoulder and half way down walls, vertical lines below; one side damaged. Found in small cist at Blackness, W. Lothian.

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)

Blackness, West Lothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1959

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Ministry of Works

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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