Summary

Beaker with decoration mainly of incised strokes and lines arranged in horizontal zones, from a Bronze Age cremation at Limefield Farm, Lanarkshire

Accession Number

X.EQ 871

Other references

Original description

The finds from a Bronze Age cairn at Limefield, Lanarkshire (RCAHMS 1978, Inventory no 77) excavated in 1966 - 67 by A MacLaren. Pottery. Beaker from central pit, with cremation (I) and V-bored jet button (EQ 889). Shallow, S-profiled vessel with slightly angular shoulder c 105 mm below the rim, which is bevelled both internally and externally. As reconstructed: height 200 mm, rim diameter 145 mm, base diameter 80 mm, wall thickness 8 mm. Outer surface reddish-brown, core dark grey/black; interior grey-brown. Hard fairly heavily gritted fabric; external surface smoothed. Decoration mainly of incised strokes and lines arranged in horizontal zones. [...]. MacLaren, A; in, Between and Beyond the Walls, 1984, pp 97 - 116, fig 6.4.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

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Method (e.g. excavation)

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Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Limefield Farm, Wiston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

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Acquisition

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Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

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Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

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