Summary

Handled cup resembling gold Rillaton cup, found in a short cist at Balmuick Farm, Comrie, Perthshire, Bronze Age, 1700 - 1450 BC

Accession Number

X.EH 8

Other references

Original description

CLAY VESSELS OF PECULIAR TYPES. Handled Urn, measuring 6 in. in height, 6 1/4 in. by 5 5/8 in. in diameter at the base, ornamented with a series of circular incised bands on the lip, the sides, and the base. Found in a short cist at Balmuick Farm, near Comrie, 1884. SD note, July 1999: Edited from SCRAN full data set.

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)

Balmuick Farm, Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1914

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Unknown

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Not recorded

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