Summary

Pottery food vessel, from Limefield Farm, Wiston, Lanarkshire

Accession Number

X.EQ 876

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. Miniature Food Vessel found in cist 5. Immediately below the rim, which is bevelled internally, there is a very slightly concave neck, below which the body curves gently to a proportionately broad flat base. Height 80 mm, rim diameter 133 mm, base diameter 80 mm, wall thickness 13 mm. Outer surface brown mottled black; core black; inner surface grey-brown. Fairly hard fabric with coarse grits. The exterior bears a number of short thin incised strokes in a more or less haphazard arrangement, applied vertically on the rim and neck and obliquely elsewhere; they only exist intermittently, but appear to be a crude attempt at decoration, most likely applied with a fingernail. MacLaren, A; in, Between and Beyond the Walls, 1984, pp 97 - 116.

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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