Summary

Pottery / cordoned urn ? / rim / body / base / sherd

Accession Number

X.EQ 882

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. Rim, body and base sherds of a vessel, probably a Cordoned Urn, from NW quadrant. Overall form uncertain, but rim internally bevelled. Wall thickness 9 mm, base thickness 15 mm. Outer surface reddish-brown, core and interior black. Hard, heavily gritted fabric with medium to large-size inclusions. The surviving decoration, on the external surface, consists of coarse comb impressions arranged in two horizontal lines, 15 mm and 48 mm below the rim, with a rough criss-cross pattern in between. 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

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

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)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

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