Summary

Early Bronze Age food vessel from a short cist at Bridgeness, West Lothian

Accession Number

X.EE 171

Other references

Original description

Ceramic: Food vessel; almost complete, wanting only part of the lower body and base (possibly modern damage); some poor quality restoration with plaster. Ornamented with horizontal lines of comb impressions, triangular jabs, circular punctulations and obliquely set impressions probably applied with the end of the toothed comb. Unusual organic encrustation adheres to much of upper surface. Trans Roy Soc Edinburgh, 51 ( ), ;Callander,J G 'A short cist containing a food-vessel and human remains at Bridgeness, West Lothian', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 58 (1923 -24), 286 - 94. Donated per Professor Romanes. Found 1896.

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)

Bridgeness, West Lothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1992

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

University of Edinburgh, Anatomy Department

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Not recorded

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