Summary

Full sized beaker of light brown clay from a smaller than normal cist with the cremation of a 3 - 5 year old child, from Thornton, Innerwick, 2300 - 1800 BC

Accession Number

X.EG 74

Other references

Original description

URNS OF DRINKING-CUP TYPE: Beaker urn of light brown coloured clay 8" high, 6 1/2" in external diam. at mouth 6 1/4" at bulge and 3 3/8" at base. Thornton, Innerwick, East 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)

Thornton, Innerwick, East Lothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1938

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Department of Agriculture for Scotland

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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