Summary

Pottery urn, from Blairbuy, Glasserton, Wigtownshire

Accession Number

X.EQ 517

Other references

Original description

COLLECTIONS FROM SEPULCHRAL DEPOSITS: From Blair Buy, Parish ofGlasserton, Wigtownshire. Rudely made urn, like a cinerary urn in colour and texture, decorated sporadically on the body with whipped-cord "maggot" impressions with similar impressions transversely round the top of the flattened rim, and obliquely just outside it. PK Note: Deposited in 1890 by Dr Selby, Port-William, Wigtonshire, see Reg. p. 186, and now taken in charge [taken from Continuation Catalogue].

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)

Blairbuy, Glasserton, Wigtownshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1946

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

None