Summary

Sherds of Beaker pottery from Limefield Farm, Wiston, Lanarkshire

Accession Number

X.EQ 873

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. Sherds and fragments representing the rim, concave neck and base of a Beaker found with sherds, probably of a Food Vessel (EQ 884), scattered in and around the central area. Rim diameter 165 mm, wall thickness 9 mm, base thickness 15 mm. Yellowish-buff surfaces, with black core. Hard fabric, profusely gritted with inclusions up to 7 mm, some erupting through the surface. Haphazardly decorated on the neck with a very irregularly incised criss-cross design; over-all pattern uncertain (Ritchie, 1970, 145, no. 30). MacLaren, A; in, Between and Beyond the Walls, pp 97 - 116.

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

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

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Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Limefield Farm, Wiston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

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Acquisition

Acquisition date

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Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

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Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

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